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...imaginary political balance sheet, Cheney is the Democrats' most valuable asset. And reversing that situation is getting close to impossible. Cheney recently made his weekly pilgrimage to the Senate, where he had lunch on March 6 with Republicans. He took his usual seat on one side of the stately Mike Mansfield Room and watched the proceedings quietly. Various Senators came by to ask him about his health after a blood-clot scare the day before. Others quietly lent support in the wake of that morning's four-count guilty verdict of Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby...
...meeting that was extended past its usual end time of 10 p.m., the committee met Fowler-Finn’s budget presentation with a flurry of questions, largely centering on specific programs being implemented in the classroom...
Better double-check your appointment schedules this Sunday, March 11. That's when daylight saving time will start - three weeks earlier than usual - in most of the U.S. and Canada. In an attempt to save electricity, the U.S. Congress introduced a provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandating that clocks "spring forward" three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and "fall back" a week later, on the first Sunday in November. But the energy conservation that extra hour of sunlight is supposed to deliver comes with a cost: computer glitches that some fear could...
...many doors. Foreign politicians like Downer and his New Zealand counterpart Winston Peters are getting bad advice from their Fiji missions, he says, and don't know what's happening on the ground. "The diplomats got along better with Qarase's people," he says. "They want business as usual-even if it's going downhill." Last month Fiji's Reserve Bank predicted the economy would shrink 2-4% this year; before the coup, it had forecast growth of 2%. Speaking the day before his government's first Budget, Bainimarama blames Qarase's team. "If the economy falls," he says, "then...
...bringing all the different arts together,” according to Chen. Spies-Gans also cited their desire to “push the bounds of what is considered a museum” as being at the heart of the event’s relaxed atmosphere. The usual hush of the galleries was replaced with the strum of sophomore Jonathan M. Jackson ’09’s guitar and the chatter of the students discussing the works on the walls...