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When President-elect George W. Bush is sworn in as our nation's new chief executive tomorrow, millions of Americans will be watching the Inaugural festivities, listening to the Inaugural Address and learning where our new president intends to lead us over the next four years. Unfortunately, however, many Harvard students will not be participating in this national ritual--not because of apathy or poor citizenship, but because they will be taking their final exams. According to the Registrar's final exam schedule, 1,380 Harvard students will be busily filling out blue books during...
...moisten. The lip did not quiver. The naked love of politics did not leap from his face as it did during his valedictory in Los Angeles, or during his dozen other farewells this year (he'll be saying good-bye again by radio Saturday only hours before Bush is sworn...
Hollis Heimbouch, senior editor at HBSP, said she had little information with which to evaluate the book besides the reputation of the machine's inventor and the testimonies of a few witnesses to the machine who had been sworn to secrecy...
...Again and again, committee members were warned against rejecting Ashcroft simply on the basis of his ideology - and several Republicans defending the former senator even made the case that Ashcroft's strong religious and moral beliefs would make him more likely to uphold the laws he'd be sworn to protect as attorney general. Ashcroft himself, in brief but impassioned opening remarks, concurred, attempting to dissuade those who fear his appointment would threaten existing abortion and civil rights laws: "I know the difference between enacting and enforcing the law. I know the post of attorney general means advancing the national...
After her husband is sworn in, Cheney will return to her positions on the boards of Reader's Digest and AXP Mutual, a subsidiary of American Express. Citing time constraints, she has resigned from the boards of two other firms--including defense contractor Lockheed Martin--but will continue her association with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. And why not? At 59, Cheney has a life. "I have worked in some fashion my whole life," she told TIME. "It would seem as if I were turning into someone who was not me if I were to take...