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...with that, the Pentagon chief began to tap dance. His reply, according to a Republican Senator in the room, was a classic Rumsfeldian fugue--complete with interesting hand gestures--mentioning reductions and foreign troops and steady progress. Or, as the G.O.P. Senator described it later, "it was a five-minute, total nonanswer, just unbelievably obtuse." Another Republican Senator put it this way to TIME: "Rumsfeld believes in his own magic...
...There’s no more? Just this one room?” Yup. Just a space the size of an Eliot common room, but slightly more rectangular. A third of the space is occupied by the bar—with fairly decent beers on tap, though nothing spectacular—while a teeny stage sits at the far end of the room. A few stone toad idols sit above the bartender’s head, prompting a dude sitting near me to tell me about this time in college when he caught and domesticated a toad...
...were eager to enforce the law. The fate of just one provision in the 1986 act is revealing. As part of the enforcement effort, the law called for a pilot program to establish a telephone-verification system that employers could use when hiring workers. It would allow employers to tap into a national data bank to determine the legal status of a job applicant. Only those who had legitimate documentation would be approved. With such a system, employers could no longer use the excuse that they had no way to verify a potential worker's legal status...
...spread the Word. Buckets were circulated and more than $90,000 was collected to get them on their way. The next stops on the tour are Detroit, April 7 and 8, and Philadelphia, May 12-13. If some teens can't make it, Teen Mania has managed to tap one particularly popular aspect of modern culture. It just launched the website battlecry.com, described as "MySpace with God in the middle...
...shows this spring introduce viewers to the world of high-stakes thievery, while series on tap for summer and fall look sympathetically at petty crooks and mobsters. Next year, Michael C. Hall, formerly of Six Feet Under, plays a serial killer on Showtime. He used to slab 'em. Now he'll stab...