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...other end of the seesaw is Mishra, a 70-year-old career civil servant and diplomat, who functions as the equivalent of a White House chief of staff. The fact that Mishra has survived countless calls for his removal?he's accused of wielding influence beyond his position?is testament to his pivotal role, diplomats say. Mishra is considered to be the brains behind the peace overtures of the past. His influence with Vajpayee these days waxes when the two men get away from the capital and the rest of the BJP. At a regional security conference in the Kazakh...
...coaches and teammates have been very supportive,” Grant said. “These results are just as much theirs as they are mine. They are a testament to four years of our hard work. We have all been really pushing each other in practice, and it has helped...
...President Matthew I. Tomey ’03 said the growth of SAE is a “testament to the renaissance that’s going on here...
Other top colleges have special admissions programs in which applicants are asked to take time off or enroll elsewhere and then transfer, but no other Ivy requires students to take a year off and gets them to come in such high proportions—a testament to the College’s perennial superiority in admissions...
There's nothing wrong with the Old Testament story of Esther--strong narrative, cool heroine. But that it should become the No. 1-selling children's video in America as reinterpreted by wisecracking vegetables is a little discombobulating. We are, after all, talking about kids' least-favorite food group. And the Bible. But that sales spike was no freak occurrence. VeggieTales, a video series populated by moralizing computer-animated vegetables, is America's best-selling direct-to-video series, having sprouted 28.5 million tapes since...