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While the economy failed to hurt the Administration this fall, White House officials know they can't sit still. For months Bush advisers have considered a shake-up of the President's economic team but avoided any moves that might convey the impression that the President's policies had failed. The margin of last week's victory may make Bush less skittish about such perceptions. The White House desperately wants to jump-start the economy in case a conflict with Iraq sends shudders through the global economy. Administration officials say they plan to use their Senate majority early...
...doesn't shake like a bowlful of jelly and that twinkle in his eye is more of an entrepreneurial glint, but Microsoft chairman Bill Gates seems intent on becoming India's Santa Claus. The world's richest man curried favor on the subcontinent last week by donating $100 million to help fight India's AIDS epidemic, which could hit 25 million by 2010. "There is so much promise from the great talent in this country that AIDS should not limit it," Gates said. Cultivating that talent is the goal of Gates' second gift: a $400 million investment in India, birthplace...
First, Harvard tried to shake things up by not only lining up Morris at his traditional isolation wideout spot, but also putting him in the slot position with two other wide receivers, the intent being to create more traffic to confuse the Penn defense...
...Michigan, certain traditions make being a fan an active experience—every time the opposing team is facing a third down, for example, all the Michigan students shake their keys, signifying a “key play” for the defense. Harvard must create traditions of its own. While we yell “Safety School” and “Yuck Fale” at the Elis, we need traditions that will get fans involved throughout the entire season...
...It’s the summer between my junior and senior years [of high school],” Coughlin describes. When he stepped up to shake the President’s hand, all he could think was, “This is the threshold: My life is before me now, what am I going to do with it? I have big dreams; I want to serve the world...