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...complete the housecleaning that began when Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt resigned on election night. Though the abruptness of last week's moves was startling--not least to the two men ousted--it wasn't entirely surprising. Bush's economic team has long been viewed as the weak link in a popular Administration, and both O'Neill and Lindsey were prone to gaffes that embarrassed the boss. "They lack the ability to conceive, the ability to execute and the ability to sell economic policy," said an Administration official. And that pretty much sums up both their job descriptions...
...coaches suggesting Minuto had exaggerated his football credentials to Murphy and Tall. Or it may have been the sheer implausibility of winning admission on the strength of alleged promises by an Ivy League football coach—especially since Harvard admissions offers described Minuto as “very weak academically.” (Minuto’s transfer application, public record since being introduced in the suit, reveals a 3.33 grade point average at Tulane his first semester, a 1260 SAT score and an admiration of Joseph Heller’s “extensive vocabulary...
...chaired Goldman Sachs in the early 1990s, Friedman does advocate hard-line fiscal discipline and thus will hopefully oppose some of the more aggressive tax cuts that Bush is proposing. On the other hand, this policy leaves little room for proactive social spending that is needed in a weak economy...
Although St. Danilov’s bell tower is not empty today and contains substitute bells, Father Roman Ugrinko, the current ringer, told the Moscow Times that “the bells have a weak sound, and they don’t play well together because they come from different churches. But to ring the original bells—that would be a pleasure...
...think it’s a huge advantage for us, when opposing teams see [me] as a weak spot,” Ruddock said. “It distracts their focus...