Word: rudder
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...After being introduced by Bush, Obama will speak on community service before 2,500 people in Rudder Auditorium on the campus of Texas A&M University. Obama is expected to pay tribute to Bush's Points of Light Initiative, a community-service and charitable works program he launched in the early days of his presidency in 1989. Joining the two men on stage will be Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense and former president of the university, who has worked for both Presidents...
...Bishop Allen’s “I’ll come back to you / South China Moon.” Its use, however, is representative of a larger theme of this new album. Co-frontmen Justin A. Rice ’99 and Christian A. Rudder ’98 share mic and songwriting duties with Rudder writing the bulk of the songs this time around, and the result is a safe, predictable work that obeys genre conventions without challenging them. “Grr…” always keeps the listener mildly engaged while making...
...both engines, tricky wind or temperature conditions at takeoff, and pilot error are all factors under consideration. "Given the rear position of the engines on the MD-82," adds Wheeldon, "if there was an explosion there, it may have meant the loss of control of the rudder and tail...
...practices what he preaches. Lured to Treasury from Goldman Sachs two summers ago by a President in need of domestic-policy credibility, Paulson has grabbed the rudder of a $14 trillion national economy churning its way through a maelstrom. There's always a danger in attributing too much economic impact to one government official, and Paulson certainly shares responsibility with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Congress - and with his boss, President George W. Bush. But if there is one person whose actions right now will determine whether the combination of crashing house prices, struggling lenders and punishingly high energy...
Justin A. Rice ’99 and Christian T. Rudder ’97 of indie rock band Bishop Allen may one day thank Middle-English literature for making them rock stars. Bishop Allen, so-named for the street in Central Square where Rice and Rudder first lived and recorded together, would never have been were it not for the pesky concentration requirement that led to their first encounter.“We were in English 10a together,” says Rudder of his first conversation with Rice. “He was in my section...