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...line, non-binding resolution of no confidence against the embattled Attorney General. "This bill is not dead." It will have to be re-animated fairly soon, though, if there's to be any hope for immigration reform this year. "We kind of need to get this back on track by the July 4th holiday," said one Senate Republican staffer. "Because that would then give the House four weeks to get it through before the August recess ... After that, there's a very short amount of time to complete work on spending bills before the beginning of the new fiscal year...
...1980s and '90s, as NASCAR marched through the North like Sherman through Georgia, France slowly altered NASCAR's image to make it more mainstream. He asked his drivers to sign more autographs and forced them to behave on the track as well. When two of his stars, Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine, were engaging in weekly sparring matches, France told them to cut it out or find another line of work. NASCAR, whose rank and file once included criminals, was coming to stand for integrity...
NASCAR, by contrast, seems, despite all the grease, clean. Wholesome. As it roars round the track, it climbs ever higher in the public's affection and esteem. It celebrates things about the American character--power, speed, courage, risk taking, fun--that we are reluctant to surrender, at least psychically. And thanks to Bill France Jr., it celebrates national inclusiveness...
...review—a priority for the College since Lawrence H. Summers came charging through its gates in 2001—gotten so off track...
...more recent establishment of the Department of Systems Biology. New initiatives in structural and chemical biology, as well as a burgeoning program in neuroscience have kept HMS at the cutting edge. We have also helped develop new graduate programs in chemical biology and systems biology, a new social sciences track within the MD-PhD Program, and initiated an innovative MD-MBA Program. HMS and the hospitals were strongly supportive of the establishment of the Broad Institute and the formation of a new interfaculty Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology. The Allston campus expansion and the opportunity to develop new programs...