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Committee members also praised the swift action of newly-installed Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn in bringing the test scores to the committee...
...fruitless hunt for WMD has not cost American lives. The failure to understand that the war was not over--and in some ways, had barely begun--when Bush stood on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln, has. The war that was fought in Iraq--with a swift march from the south to Baghdad--was not the war that Pentagon planners had anticipated. Right up to a few weeks before the start of hostilities, plans had called for the 4th Infantry Division to advance from Turkey through northern Iraq. Administration officials, especially Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz...
Still, there is something potentially creepy about Miss Match's premise. When a co-worker asks Kate, "Has it ever occurred to you that some people actually enjoy being alone?", Kate responds with a swift, cheery "No." Brooking no objections, Kate is a radiantly relentless dictator of love. She's pretty, she's perky, she got her job through her rich lawyer daddy (Ryan O'Neal); we should hate her. But here is where Silverstone makes the show. Reese Witherspoon--Silverstone's successor as Hollywood's pixie of choice--has made a career of playing such characters (Election, Legally Blonde...
...tally, which includes Massachusetts Governor Jane M. Swift, Colin Powell’s daughter and actress Ashley Judd, project an image of a diverse alumnae base...
...fallout from Spitzer's assault has been swift. Fund-research firm Morningstar--the 800-lb. gorilla of independent fund analysis--took the unprecedented step of warning investors to avoid the four fund families at the eye of Spitzer's storm--Strong, Bank of America's Nations Funds, Bank One's One Group, and most Janus offerings (except for its Mid Cap Value, Small Cap Value and Risk-Managed Stock funds, which are run by outside managers). "The firms put their own profitability ahead of shareholders'," says Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar's associate director of fund research. "Until we see changes...