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...shaking has only just begun. Sarkozy, 52, vows before the end of summer to reduce taxes on overtime, make interest on mortgages tax deductible, and impose minimum sentences for recidivists. He seems intent on tearing up France and rebuilding large parts of it from scratch. Sarkozy has never been big on patience. Throughout his career, he's been the one who pasted up the most posters, made the most phone calls, organized the biggest crowds. Proud of his brashness, he once boasted: "When I'm not invited to dinner, I ring the bell anyway, and it's rare that...
...Amanda Pfabe, Lani Skipper, Lizzy Majzoub, Medha Khandelwal, Laura Horton, Grace Hollowell, Laurel Gabard-Durnam, and junior coxswain Brady Mellett. Whereas most of the rowers on the varsity boats have rowed with each other a year of more, the entire novice eight boat, as freshmen, was put together from scratch. That the team could become so dominant in such a short time is quite unusual given that none of the players had ever rowed together in the same boat...
...Scratch the surface of any investigation in Washington these days, and it seems you will find Karl Rove. One of the few things Alberto Gonzales could recall at his Senate hearing on the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys was Rove's mentioning the names of three he thought were underperforming. Rove is at the center of the White House's lost-e-mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April...
Rebuilding a city isn't just about clearing away the wreckage and starting over from scratch - at least not when there are pieces worth saving. That's especially true in New Orleans, where many Creole townhouses and shotgun homes were built from centuries-old cypress native to the region and dense oak boards pulled from the sides of barges. Now Sergio Palleroni, an architecture professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques...
...Timbaland Presents” is in the title for a reason. He has essentially provided his musical friends with a stage on which they can simultaneously promote each other. His rhymes might not be up to his beats, but Timbaland can’t lose. He scratches his collaborators’ backs; they scratch his; and everyone sells CDs. —Reviewer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...