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Pfoho was solid. It lacked the vegetables that Currier had, but Pfoho had what Currier was missing. The well-lit area included cheese cubes and had more cereal than Currier but did not have the array of options and special baked goods that other Houses have had. By the time FlyBy arrived at 8:55 p.m. the pie was gone, but all the other food was still there and no one seemed to be in a hurry to cause a shortage...
Last spring, several Business School students developed a version of this oath for the MBA Class of 2009 to sign and organized a ceremony at Class Day with the special permission of last year’s Student Association presidents. A total of 60 percent of the MBA Class of 2009 signed the oath—half of whom signed on Class...
...know to take death threats seriously. My home was under special police watch during part of my 14 years as a U.S. Congressman. Eventually, a man went to prison for threatening to kill and dismember me because I opposed the legalization of marijuana...
...committee goes further, with a call to jettison the term special relationship as ruthlessly as colonists once dumped tea into Boston Harbor. The expression was coined by no less a person than Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the intricate skeins of mutual interest, cultural heritage and sometimes gloopy sentiment that bind Washington and London. Globalization and "shifts in geopolitical power" mean that both countries are inevitably forming new and deep alliances with other players, and talk of a "special relationship" is increasingly misleading, says the report. "The overuse of the phrase by some politicians and many in the media...
...Chilcot finds Bush and other senior U.S. figures reluctant to submit to such a process, he shouldn't be surprised. The special relationship has always been full of rejections and failed passes. Blair was initially rebuffed by his then special friend President Bill Clinton when he pressed the White House to commit ground troops to Kosovo in 1999. In 2003 the U.K. agreed to extradition terms that made it easier to extradite a Briton to stand trial in America than a U.S. citizen to face the British courts. Two years ago, evidence surfaced contradicting U.S. denials that...