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...flash, for speed, for scale; we mistake immensity for complexity and subtlety for simplicity. That has very often been our undoing. Shock and awe should win a war, until an insurgency beats it back. An election should be sealed by storming Super Tuesday, until the campaign dies of a thousand little losses. The 2003 Yankees, with their $180 million payroll, should win the World Series, until the $63 million Marlins send them packing...
...when I started this race, I intended to win back the White House and make sure we have a President who puts our country back on the path to peace, prosperity and progress," Clinton told the crowd of several thousand gathered at Washington's National Building Museum. "And that's exactly what we're going to do, by ensuring that Barack Obama walks through the doors of the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2009." The door swung shut behind Miller and Mahoney...
...When Po hears that the thousand-year-old turtle Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) is to anoint a Dragon Warrior that day, he schleps his dumpling wagon to the ceremony. In a crowded courtyard, the greatest fighters of their time, the Furious Five - the Crane (David Cross), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey (Jackie Chan) - are showily displaying the fabulous skills they have honed under the stern eye of their teacher Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). Then, through plot contortions even more acrobatic than anything the Furious Five have demonstrated, Po is declared the new kung fu hero...
...major step forward in eliminating socioeconomic barriers to attending college. The initiative—which limits annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between $120,000 and $180,000 annually—allows families in that bracket to save several thousand dollars in tuition payments per term. Other aspects of the initiative demonstrate a sensitivity to college life for students receiving financial aid: The elimination of ongoing loans gives debt-free students the freedom to pursue opportunities in less financially profitable sectors, and the decision to stop considering home equity in ability...
...consent to donate their organs upon death to bequeath their compensation. Currently only 35 percent of licensed drivers and ID card holders register to be organ donors. One would expect many more Americans to register if it meant that this would swell the inheritance they leave behind by several thousand dollars...