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...late December 2001, chief presidential speechwriter Mike Gerson made a simple request whose repercussions would be felt around the world. "Here's an assignment," he told his colleague David Frum. "Can you sum up in a sentence or two our best case for going after Iraq?" President Bush had yet to decide to target Saddam Hussein, but he was moving in that direction and wanted a rationale for overthrowing Saddam in his State of the Union address. As Frum wrote later in his book, The Right Man, "I was to provide a justification...
According to the terms of the contract, the congregation would have had until March 30, 2003—the end of this month—to raise the over $2 million sum to purchase the chapel from the seminary...
...serve breakfast in bed to the highest bidder. Undeterred by some unseemly patches of body hair peeking out from under the Greek garb, Arielle J. Cohen ’04, a Crimson editor, and her roommate Jillian P. Copeland ’04 bought the group for a sum total of $190. “Who can resist five handsome Jewish boys?” Cohen asks. Point taken. I couldn’t resist placing a few bids myself, even for the sake of objective journalism. At the end of the night, I walked away with my own handsome...
...It’s a tough season to sum up,” Parker said from his office earlier this week. “A lot of things happened—a lot of things that no one expected to happen—and I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t disappointed with the way things ended up, and how we were treated by the officials [last weekend...
Both authors were paid a lump sum for each draft of their work, and will receive royalties on each book sold. The glossy, five-by-seven handbooks sell for $6.95 each...