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...This is, in fact, a big change. In the Bush Administration, accomplished and independent-minded Cabinet Secretaries like former governors Christine Todd Whitman and Tommy Thompson bristled at marching orders from snot-nosed twentysomething White House apparatchiks. Obama's picks suggest that while his Cabinet Secretaries will take marching orders, the orders will at least come from seasoned heavyweights...
...Providing even more of a challenge is the fact that Dartmouth is undefeated at home, with an impressive 5-0 record at Thompson Arena...
...Harris, snubbed by Daley for the top spot of chief of staff, ditched city hall just before a large budget deficit was to be unveiled and walked across the street to the Thompson Center state building. Many at the city were surprised. As one put it: "People were like, 'what?' People just don't go over there [to the governor's office]. The money generally isn't as good and you're working for a crackpot...
...number. "We love you, Liza!" "You look great, Liza!" the fans yelled out whenever the room was in danger of quieting down. They cheered her costume changes, laughed knowingly at the coy references to her failed marriages, cooed nostalgically as she reminisced about her mom and her "godmother," Kay Thompson, whose 1940s nightclub show she pays tribute to in the second act. When she closed the show with "New York, New York" and followed up with an encore of her mother's sentimental holiday number, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," they died and went to heaven...
...Pitchfork “Top 500 Songs” Book—Apparently, in the rush to become our generation’s Rolling Stone, the indie-crit tastemaker inadvertently bypassed the righteous Lester Bangs/Hunter Thompson years and landed somewhere in the mire of that magazine’s bloated, self-parodying culture-factory era. And when did the hipsters get coffee tables? 4. The Google Android Phone—What do you want for Christmas, Johnny? An iPhone? Well let me tell you what Uncle Cliff’s going to do for you. No, don?...