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...Cheney takes pride in not backing down. In March 2004, when Cheney was about to walk onstage to deliver his first formal excoriation of Senator John Kerry as being soft on Saddam, a frantic aide telephoned to urge him to tone it down. A suicide car bomber had just torn the front off a hotel in central Baghdad. Cable news was going crazy, and aides had nightmares of Cheney speaking in split screen with smoldering rubble. According to a person familiar with the incident, Cheney raised his right eyebrow, gave a quarter grin and shook off the advice...
BABY JESSICA Torn from the only family she knew...
...play by actor Polk, who brings an explosive energy to Mohr’s doubts and contradictions—is tense and thick with words, ideas, and inspiration. Polk ably acts as the central pivot of the play and is brilliantly convincing in his portrayal of an individual truly torn between bureaucracy and humanity...
Hilles Library I loved. That palace of glass, that heirloom of Radcliffe, eyrie of learning, bastion of browsing, birthdom of our memories, is now left decimated by the faceless hordes of Harvard College, tomes torn up for fancy résumés and paper airplanes. Dark Age gargoyles, awful epigones: Weep, you undergraduates, if you have tears to spill...
...short-lived lead. “Ryan’s a great leader out there,” O’Hagan said. “He showed it with that long catch he had.” Mazza had been possible to return this Saturday, but reaggravated his torn ankle ligaments in practice this week and is likely done for the season. IT’S BEEN A WHILE The win marked the first time Princeton has beaten Harvard in nine seasons. The last Tigers win was a 14-3 victory at Harvard Stadium in 1995. Though the Princeton...