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...Proxmire could be vain and he had his faults. He endured a good bit of teasing from the press for a hair transplant, and for all his penny-pinching, he did back expensive dairy price supports-a rich piece of pork to keep his Wisconsin dairy farmers happy. But Prox would fire back that he paid for the transplant and he could move his hair to anywhere he liked. And he backed dairy price supports at the behest of his constituents, not because a lobbyist with a fat campaign check had persuaded him. Proxmire eventually became somewhat of a Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senator William Proxmire: A Personal Appreciation | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...doing, Rice appeared to accept a more restrictive standard than Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been trying--so far in vain--to get an exemption for CIA officers in the legislation that Arizona Senator John McCain has pushed to ban torture and other inhumane treatment. A senior State Department official denied any rift between Rice and Cheney and insisted Rice was merely "clarifying existing policy." But two senior Administration officials interpreted Rice's increasingly pointed statements as a clear sign to the bureaucracy back home as well as to allies in Europe that her more sweeping restrictions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Covering Its Tracks | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...course not. Except that, for the last 16 years, the queen of daytime talk had refused to be a guest of the once-hippest guy on late-night talk because he had made her feel demeaned when she did appear back in the 80s, then took her name in vain, oh, about a thousand times in subsequent shows. Not to mention, though of course they both did last night, the "Oprah... Uma..." fiasco the year Letterman hosted the Academy Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Color Oprah | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...don’t think it was all in vain,” says Lewis. “At least it forced members to think about how the club is perceived...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Between Sex and Politics | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...successfully fooled Harvard students into forming the words “We Suck” with white and crimson signs. But this year, while spirited Harvard students ran around the stadium clutching Yale’s bulldog mascot “Handsome Dan,” Yalies waited in vain to hear self-deprecating cheers of “We Suck.” The origins of the prank are unknown, though Yale freshman Brooks Swett suspects the messages were sent to every Harvard student with a cell phone number listed on the facebook.com. But anecdotal evidence suggests this method...

Author: By Dan R. Rasmussen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who Sucks Now? | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

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