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...Before we continue, full disclosure: We in no way feel that we are qualified to run PBS. Or to hold a high position at the OMB. Or even, really, to sweep out the foyer at the Air & Space Museum. All of which we applied for. And neither of us expects that this letter will change anyone's mind in the new administration, or give us a better chance at that great government pension in the sky. We just want to set the record straight, and to perhaps warn other soft-hearted folks who, foundering in the tempest-toss'd seas...
...divided on how to succeed him. The first sign of trouble came earlier this week when Arroyo's defense minister quit over her decision to retain as national security adviser a former military chief who faces corruption charges himself. She may be a committed economic reformer who hopes to sweep out corruption, but Gloria Arroyo is perched atop a power structure that has been riddled with graft and now appears to be wracked by political infighting...
Even though the Harvard men's hockey team picked up a sweep on the road against Princeton and Yale last year, the storied curses of Hobey Baker and Ingalls Rink were just too much to overcome this weekend. The Crimson (9-8-1, 8-4-1 ECAC) emerged from last weekend's trip with a respectable split, downing the Tigers (5-11-3, 4-6-2) 4-3 with a come-from-behind victory Friday night and falling 3-1 to the Bulldogs (8-8-0, 6-6-0) on Saturday. Although Harvard picked up its second consecutive...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Forced to play two weekend road games going into finals period, the Harvard women's basketball team nearly pulled of an arduous sweep, but fell just short...
...turning this reverse cholesterol transport on, you'd be able to stimulate removal of cholesterol from vessel walls back to the liver for excretion," says Dr. Richard Gregg, vice president of metabolic- and cardiovascular-drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Taken in combination with statins, such drugs could virtually sweep the arteries clean of cholesterol...