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...were well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely because he watched his enemies in the biggest L.D.P. faction shove fat contracts to construction bosses who delivered votes and campaign war chests in return...
Ethan Stiefel, the greatest American-born male ballet dancer since Edward Villella, has appeared in a dazzlingly wide range of works since joining American Ballet Theatre in 1997--Le Corsaire, Billy the Kid, Balanchine's Apollo, Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove--performing them all with a casual virtuosity and unmannered grace worthy of Fred Astaire. On Oct. 26, Stiefel adds a new role to his repertoire: the male lead in Dim Lustre, Antony Tudor's rarely seen, piercingly Proustian tale of remembered love. It's part of A.B.T.'s New York City winter season...
Rumsfeld had reasons for his secrecy. When push came to shove, the military didn't much want to re-examine itself. When he asked for recommendations about how to change, the Navy came in with a request for five additional aircraft carriers. The Air Force offered to mothball some old bombers but would not sacrifice a single fighter plane. The Army proposed to cut the Reserves--an idea it knew Congress would never approve. But there was something else going on. Throughout the campaign, the Bush team kept complaining about burdensome overseas commitments. The military, however, regarded all the extra...
...Here was this guy who wasn't confrontational, who didn't shove a banner in my face, but had this terrible dilemma," Fauci told the San Francisco Chronicle. "You can't be a human being without having that move...
...class and dreamed of becoming a doctor. There was a problem, however. As a teenager, Carson would explode with rage whenever he was crossed. One day, while he was listening to the radio, a friend changed the station without his permission. Carson went berserk and tried to shove a knife into the other boy's stomach...