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...mainstay of the lobbying industry. And there is little money to spend anyway, so Bush might as well retool himself as a fearless budget cop. "Listen, we got a lot of people in Washington who preach fiscal discipline, and then they go on to vote against spending restraint," Bush told the Economic Club of Chicago just after New Year...
...celebre for activists on Michigan’s campus. One thing is for sure, though: whatever decision the DRB does make about Pepsi will be no less arbitrary and no more fact-based than the one it made about Coke. We can only hope other universities will exercise more restraint...
...years earlier, in an interview with The Crimson just after his appointment as Harvard’s president, Summers offered a note of caution from his career at the U.S. Treasury.“You learned very quickly that the right way to handle things was to speak with restraint,” he said. “Being provocative and interesting wasn’t always good.” —Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached at seward@fas.harvard.edu...
...operation--and particularly Bush's decision to bypass the generally amenable Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authorization--has drawn fire not only from liberal Democrats but also from some of the most conservative in Bush's party, in which government restraint is a fundamental precept. "There is a test of Republicans on this," says activist Grover Norquist, normally a White House ally. "The country will let you get away with this in the wake of 9/11, but that doesn't make it right." And even if Republicans are prepared to bless Bush's program, they know it theoretically would have...
...eight albums of early Ray Charles a little much? Damn straight. The makers of this boxed set exercise no restraint, but they do include some fascinating stuff. Skip the well-worn hits, and go right to the song sketches to hear how Charles felt his way toward redefining American pop music. And if you somehow make it to disc eight, the reward is a recording of the legendary moment when record executive Ahmet Ertegun sang a bizarre-- but not at all bad-- version of What'd I Say to convince Charles of the song's potential...