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...deductions have the effect of equalizing the differences in the awards. Critics have called this Feinberg's "Robin Hood strategy." For many people in the room, the number is now at or close to zero. Feinberg says he will make sure no one gets zero. "Leave it to me," he says. But nowhere will that be written into the rules when they are finalized in mid-February. Likewise, many fiances and gay partners will be at the mercy of Feinberg's discretion in seeking awards. Before finding out exactly what they will get - and the rules are complex - families will...
...blow the horn and tell us to run because another building might collapse on us, and then they'd bring us back to the same place two hours later," he recalls. "You'd be doing your work, and then all of a sudden you'd look up and see Robin Williams and then the New York Giants. They were there to see us, they wanted to shake our hands...
...burning heat/ Of a bridal suite/ In use,/ You're the breasts of Venus/ You're King Kong's penis/ You're self-abuse!" In 1948, for a Bob Hope Christmas tour in support of the Berlin airlift, he adapted the Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin "Thanks for the Memory." The bridge went: "Thanks to the fighting Air Force/ That daily took its toll;/ Now it's a humane Air Force/ With heart and soul,/ Dropping wheat and coal." (If Hope were touring today, he could sing the lyric in Afghanistan...
...victory (twice denied to President Clinton) was at least as notable for the White House's impressive arm twisting: several crucial votes came from G.O.P. Representatives from states that have been especially hard hit by trade competition. One key pro-Bush vote, for example, came from North Carolina Republican Robin Hayes, who regularly opposes trade bills but switched sides after the White House promised to protect his state's textile producers. The decisive ballot was cast by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, who changed his vote to Bush's side when the tally hit 214-214. At the last minute...
Instead, effigies of Corporation members were displayed as Puri-tyrannical mascots while workers shouted for more money above the cacophony of drums and various assorted noisemakers. It was inspired casting: Scrooge hovering over the oppressed masses, with students as Robin Hoods—take from the rich, give to the poor. The sheer spectacle of the rally was enough to efface its animating principle, merely reducing the need for a living wage to a clash between Big, Bad, Corporate Harvard and its revolutionary peasantry...