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...showed a tougher side on Thursday, telling House Democrats at a retreat in Virginia that Republicans who have been pushing amendments to add more and more tax cuts to the legislation want to return "to the same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin." His growing frustration with the stalemate was echoed by Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who insisted that the bargaining could only go on for so long before he would bring the package to the floor for a vote. "As I have explained to people...
...foundation of his desire to entertain: Another favorite was the dissing competitions, in which children threw insults at each other to make others laugh. "Your grandmother is so fat that God won't let her into heaven," one boy would shout at another as the crown laughed ... In the beginning I'd fall silent when it was my turn. But I started improving ... As well as the insults we had to rap for the older boys-tell stories in chanting rhythms to entertain them-and I found that I enjoyed entertaining people...
...Upon being taken to Kenya for schooling and reintegrating into regular life: I knew I made mistakes in this strange place. When I was given a cup, I broke it; when I ate food at a table, I threw chicken bones over my shoulder onto the floor; and when I played with white children, I made them cry ... I knew I was different because I was a soldier, and although other children never knew my secret, I think they could sense it. I had dreams at night that made me shake and sweat in fear as the war buried inside...
...which to enforce their codes. They used to limit themselves mostly to motions of disapproval when members went astray. But last December, after the National Academy Museum in New York City sold two paintings from its collection to cover a chronic operating deficit, the Association of Art Museum Directors threw the place into art-world purgatory. It forbade its members from lending work to Academy exhibitions, which effectively prevents it from mounting the loan shows that are the lifeblood of the museum world...
...turning 60 this year, but he still knows how to make a great album. “Working on a Dream” is meaningful, powerful, and thoroughly enjoyable. While he may not be producing the music he used to, no one should have been disappointed that the Boss threw in one of his new songs at the halftime show. —Staff writer Edward F. Coleman can be reached at efcolem@fas.harvard.edu...