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Little wonder, then, that Yuma is a tad giddy these days. "Bill Gates isn't coming out here to open a Microsoft plant, so we have to use what we have," says Doug Sanderson, Yuma's city manager. "The ethanol operations are a good synergy with our corn, water, waste treatment, hardworking people, our transportation. It's a good...
...then suddenly flex. How can a player who entered the Aussie appearing, to put it gently, a tad robust still romp to a title? "I have a big ass, I have big boobs," says Williams, who is 5 ft. 9 in. and listed at 135 lbs. "It's not common for athletes to have those assets. I'm never going to be a size 0." Williams admits she wasn't in top shape--and still isn't--but don't call her overweight. She prefers "bootylicious." Which makes the Aussie win even more delicious. "I've never seen anyone play...
...lenders to route a percentage of revenue from student loans back to the schools, with the funds often explicitly directed into financial-aid coffers. Congress and at least two states are looking into these inducements, which New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo calls "kickbacks"--a label that seems a tad unfair if the money helps cash-strapped students rather than enrich officials. But with the spotlight now on student loans, critics are clamoring to reform what has become an $85 billion industry...
Political scientists speak of the communications skills of Reagan, Thompson and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but that is a tad solemn. Better to call what they do by its simple, professional name--actingso long as we acknowledge that most successful leaders have done their share of performing...
...furnishings for his office. Though after these expenditures came to light he agreed to reimburse the state for them, Patrick’s decisions have almost completely undermined his strong rhetoric on slashing the Bay State’s expected $1.3 billion deficit. It seems more than a tad hypocritical to force state agencies to tighten their belts while the governor splurges on leather seats and drapes. Most troubling, however, has been Patrick’s now-notorious decision to call Citigroup executive Robert E. Rubin ’60 on behalf of ACC Capital Holding, a struggling mortgage company...