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...runs the economy so well so we have this money to spend.'" Others have proved less forgiving. Former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke branded Brown a "control freak," while Lord Turnbull, a top civil servant, remarked of his management style at the Treasury: "You cannot help but admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness of it all." Within eight months of Blair's first victory, a source from within 10 Downing Street famously skewered Brown by diagnosing him as "psychologically flawed...
...exhausts the elemental fuel in its core and begins to collapse inward. The outer layers blow off in a huge flare we recognize as a supernova while the core becomes more and more compressed, eventually forming the infinitely dense node that is a black hole. In SN 2006gy, the sheer mass of the star produced so much core heat and gamma-ray radiation that it created matter and antimatter particle pairs. This blew the star to bits, leaving no cold core behind...
...groundbreaking study--which is being emulated in Boston, Chicago and Portland, Ore.--was full of surprises. Among them was the sheer size of New York's problem: 70,000 students from 16 to 21--more than one-fifth of the city's high school population--were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating the 44 credits needed for graduation. An additional 68,000 had already dropped out. All told, New York's 138,000 lost and vulnerable kids made up a population larger than the combined public high school enrollment of Philadelphia, Houston and Boston...
...disruptive and entertaining traumas - flood, fire, financial ruin, murder, rape, penury - in Swift's previous novels. And yet, despite its frustrating lack of world-class tragedy, there is something doggedly compelling about Tomorrow. Even when you know what's coming, the way Swift uses dialogue, weather, flashbacks, foreshadowing and sheer finesse to get Paula straight through till dawn - without sounding like a nattering neurotic - is impressive. It's like watching a 19th century master at the top of his form, using yesterday's winches and grommets to build today's world. Who cares what tomorrow may bring...
...candidates Thursday night at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C., was a polite event - and not a particularly enlightening one. Part of the problem was the format, in which candidates were limited to 60-second answers and not allowed to engage each other. Part of it was the sheer number of people onstage: eight candidates in all. But after 90 minutes, it was hard to pick out a single memorable answer. The only thing made clearer is why the candidates, who are facing scores of requests to repeat the exercise, are trying to put a limit to the number...