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...Everything seemed to be going wrong for Bush last week, even the metaphors. On the way to the Allen fund raiser, we stopped for a photo op at a picturesque farm stand outside Richmond. There was a pile of pumpkins sitting on a flatbed truck, and both Allen and Bush tried to hoist an aesthetically pleasing pumpkin by the stem. Both stems snapped. "If you break it, you pay for it, Mr. President," said Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, echoing Colin Powell's famous rule at the outset of the Iraq war. Bush didn't seem to get the joke...
...deal. Are you still confident of landing the airline? As an Irishman, I am always optimistic but never ever confident. It is a great deal for Aer Lingus' passengers, who will enjoy a 10% reduction in short-haul fares, and an even better deal for Aer Lingus employees, who stand to make on average 360,000 each. A 27% premium over the flotation price of a week earlier is a very generous offer. Since taking control of Ryanair in 1994, you've built a successful short-haul business. Why buy a long-haul operator? Aer Lingus is not a long...
...fact of the matter is we are there, and it is the central struggle at this point. The terrorists' only strategy is to break our will. They can't beat us in a stand-up fight. They never have. They go back, and they cite evidence of Beirut in 1983 and Somalia in 1993, when they killed Americans and then Americans withdrew. They think we don't have the stomach for the fight. For us to do what the Democrats--some Democrats--have suggested in Iraq would simply validate that strategy, would simply say to al-Qaeda, You're right...
...sold-out crowd roared with laughter as six stand-up comedians, all performing without pay, helped raise money for Deep Roots—an organization devoted to education in the third world—as part of the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) second annual Comedy for a Cause...
...daunting statistic for the squad to carry with it. But Radcliffe is used to it, and as the crew takes strength from the history in its boathouse, it also seeks to make this a year about the current team—to make a name for itself that can stand up over time.“The history is a really important piece of the strength of the program,” O’Leary says. “But at the same time, it’s our year.”—Staff writer Walter...