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Sporting their sunglasses and trim figures, smartly enduring and inventing indignities, these characters are a new breed of Palestinian: cool. (When a fire bomb is lobbed into his driveway, a man blithely turns on a fire extinguisher, as if terrorists were familiar household pests.) They also have an underdog appeal. That's one perk of being on the weaker side: you get to make jokes about the mighty. Short of a suicide bomb, what power have they...
...President seized on it. "I love your ideas about...double taxation of dividends," he said. "That makes a lot of sense." Five months later the proposal was incorporated into the Bush tax plan. As for Schwab, he could trim $4 million from his tax bill...
...when President Bush in 1989 asked him to be Secretary of Defense instead, he leaped at the offer. Even when he was in the House, Cheney displayed a strong bent - atypical in that chamber - for Executive privilege. In the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress had moved aggressively to trim back presidential powers and expand its own. Cheney was opposed. In 1987 he was the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, which concluded that Ronald Reagan had overstepped his powers as President. Cheney's minority report was a full-throated rejection of that view...
...first half against Lehigh saw Rogus drain a triple and bank home a jumper to trim Lehigh’s early six-point lead to one. The spurt foreshadowed his outburst in the second half...
Baraka Café is an alluring little restaurant. Its bricked room with blue trim and curtains seems as far away from Central Square as Cambridge is from North Africa. The undulating fans, swaying glass lamps and lemonade scented with orange blossom and rose petals ($1.75) all conspire to create a transporting experience. Even though I can never finish a meal, the trip to Central Square seems worth...