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...fill and plenty of leisure time. But U2's less famous members are hardly dead weight. In fact, their job is to be live weight--or at least ballast. They are steady, difficult to impress and maddeningly unromantic. "If we're in the studio trying to build the rocket," says Bono, "Edge is under the hood with his slide rule, I'm trying to become fuel, Larry is pointing out the reasons it'll never fly, and Adam's asking, 'Do we really want to go there?' They're always reasonable and usually correct--and I hate them...
...changes to come about without strong administrative action. “There has to be a clear message from the President and the Dean [of the Faculty] and the Provost and the Divisional Deans that this is important,” says Hochschild. “This is not rocket science, but I’m skeptical of whether it’s actually been done as well as it could have been...
During the Ross’s transit through the Suez Canal, he writes in an e-mail, “the threat of RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] attacks or sniper fire is all too imminent... The canal is at points so narrow that standing on one of the banks, Johnny Damon could toss a baseball right through the Pilot house and out the other side. As well guarded as the canal is, it is still one of the most hair-raising events of the deployment because of the ever-looming possibilities...
...moral values.” (This is what exit polls seem to show.) Let’s say “moral values” is a code for homophobia and opposition to a woman’s right to choose. (It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that “moral values” Republicans aren’t looking at the moral value of providing every child with healthcare.) Finally, let’s assume that rural voters aren’t idiots. They know what they care about (conservative social legislation...
With under six minutes left, and after the first of two costly Yale penalties—both drawn by Harvard freshman Alex Meintel—the winger fired a rocket past Gartner that brought the Bright Hockey Center crowd to its feet...