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...York said in a moment of clarity during last week's foggy and depressing Senate debate about the war in Iraq, "a strategy to win in Iraq or a strategy for Republicans to win elections here at home." There was, of course, no doubt that politics would trump substance. The Republicans dutifully repeated White House talking points, punctuated occasionally by perverse outbursts like Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe's assertion that "this isn't a civil war...the insurgents aren't Iraqis." The melodrama on the Democratic side was the continuing slow-motion self-immolation of Senator John Kerry, who posited...
...this is why the man can afford the finest hair gels and dentrifices: the successful host is wise enough to be the fool. There are exceptions, like the beneficent and vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball Kelly Ripa. "Being fallible works to my advantage," says Ricki Lake, who has gone from the queen of train-wreck talk to the cheerfully awkward M.C. of CBS's Gameshow Marathon...
...major philanthropy, and private funds already devoted to the science labs themselves.Hyman concedes that discussions for some of the largest gifts are “understandably delayed until the donors can meet a new permanent president,” but says he remains optimistic that loyalty to Harvard will trump hesitation prompted by presidential turnover.Summers’ ambitions for the area will define his legacy and guide the next years of development, even as the details of his broad vision are filled in by his successors. For Allston, this seems appropriate.“This project has already seen...
...will make after being selected in an online fan vote from a pool of Winter Games standouts to appear in the upcoming sixth season of the popular reality show, The Apprentice, debuting in January. The program, the brainchild of real estate mogul Donald Trump, pits two teams against each other in tasks testing their character, business acumen, and entrepreneurship, with the least apt candidate—in the eyes of The Donald—getting eliminated each week to the sound of his trademark “You’re fired!” catch phrase...
...trump card in Cambridge government is the city manager’s success with the AAA bond rating,” Wellons says...