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...Richard Stengel, Managing Editor
...were before-and-after snapshots of his Administration. The first day was what Bush probably expected his presidency would be when he was elected in 2001: a jaunt through North Carolina, visiting a magnet school and a wonderful camp for children with chronic diseases established by retired Nascar star Richard Petty, followed by the inevitable fund-raising dinner. That was George W. Bush as I had first known him, passionate and compassionate, a convincing advocate for the need to reauthorize his No Child Left Behind Act, which uses tests to make schools accountable for their performance. But when Bush visited...
...photo op at a picturesque farm stand outside Richmond. There was a pile of pumpkins sitting on a flatbed truck, and both Allen and Bush tried to hoist an aesthetically pleasing pumpkin by the stem. Both stems snapped. "If you break it, you pay for it, Mr. President," said Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, echoing Colin Powell's famous rule at the outset of the Iraq war. Bush didn't seem to get the joke. "I suppose you're right," he said, and tried to buy the broken pumpkin...
REPAYMENT ORDERED. For Richard Grasso, 60, former New York Stock Exchange chairman ousted in 2003 amid outrage over the disclosure of his $140 million compensation package; of as much as $100 million of that compensation; by a state supreme court judge; in New York City. The ruling, which Grasso said he would appeal, coincided with other big news from Wall Street: the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 12,000-point mark for the first time...
...second in a row over the Crimson after losing nine straight from 1996 to 2004. Hughes is now 2-6 career against Harvard....Six different players have now attempted passes for the Crimson this season: Pizzotti, O’Hagan, Sanders, sophomore quarterback Jeff Witt, junior quarterback Richard Irvin, and senior punter Clem McDavid, who attempted a pass on a fake field goal against Lafayette....The game marked the first time since 1946 that the two teams had met as undefeateds, when Harvard was 2-0 and Princeton was 1-0. It was the first time since 1922 that both...