Word: towerism
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...fact, with dozens of Republicans facing stiffer-than-normal challenges this year and House Democrats enjoying a $40 million financial advantage, Boehner publicly refused to stiff-arm his backbenchers, and two-thirds of his caucus voted against the bill. And Pelosi, in a partisan speech, was not exactly a tower of political courage either, although if any Republican voted against the bill because of her speech--as some GOP leaders believe was the case--it would take partisan sensitivity to ridiculous new lows. While it's true that the Democrats could have passed the measure themselves, it was an Administration...
Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09 is a history concentrator in Eliot House. His column, “Foreign Intelligence” will approach international politics from a historical and economic perspective, bringing the rest of the world to the ivory tower on alternate Thursdays...
...provide a unique comedic service on campus certainly, but also for the college media world in general,” says Greaves, who has worked on other HRTV programs such as Ivory Tower and Respectably French...
...sticking to their assignments. JPL handles most of the unmanned missions. Ames takes on what JPL can't, and often competitively bids against its downcoast colleagues. Huntsville focuses on rockets and propulsion systems. Canaveral still launches and Houston still takes over the moment the engine bells clear the tower. The Goddard Space Flight Center in Beltsville, Md., studies space science, investigating the chemistry and physics of the Earth, the solar system and the universe, most notably with the aid of the Hubble Space Telescope...
Just as the House of Representatives was split on the wisdom of the $700 billion bailout bill, so too are Harvard’s economists, who have left their Ivory Tower perches to weigh in on a plan that would mark an unprecedented government intervention in the financial sector...