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Bush’s bill passed the House by a single vote. And getting even a “$400 billion” entitlement through the Republican Congress was a challenge. Already we know that (according to Chicago Sun-Times journalist Robert Novak) retiring Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., received threats because he opposes deficit spending. With the Bush-controlled House leadership’s endorsement, Novak reported, Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., and others told the disloyalist that his son—running in Michigan to succeed Smith—would lose funding from GOP loyalists...
...elephants graying the grassy expanse that is the Minneriya-Giritale Sanctuary - about one-third of the country's wild-elephant population. Minneriya must be one of Sri Lanka 's best-kept secrets. In three hours, we'd seen just two other cars prowling around. And as the sun sank, accompanied by the snapping and cracking of branches, elephants - singly at first, then in tens, then in hundreds - came to the Minneriya Tank (one of Sri Lanka's major reservoirs) to drink, bathe and play. There are plenty of tame and tethered elephants in Sri Lanka - just the previous night...
Indeed, though second-seeded Harvard dropped the doubles point for the second time in a week, the team rallied with assertive singles play to take the victory from the Blue Raiders (5-6, 0-1 Sun Belt...
...Coral could own it. Seriously, the band has some fine musicians and competent vocalists, and they come across as very polished. I bet they’d do a rockin’ rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun,” but there’s no way not to suck given the songs they have written...
...feeling that the River’s patent superiority spoke for itself—but I have been studying in Hilles Library lately. This is the sort of peculiar habit you admit to with an abashed smile, like an affection for listening to ABBA records while binging on Sun Chips and Fresca. In a nostalgic age, it is the rare indulgence that is passé without having quite acquired the mass following to be retro...