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...contentious White House meeting, saying they simply didn't have the votes, House Republican leaders forced a renegotiation of the bill, moving it further to the right to make it more palatable to their members. Then, after marathon talks over the weekend, an agreement was struck in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and the GOP House leadership quickly got behind the deal. "We are supporting this bill," House minority leader John Boehner told reporters Sunday night, adding that he was asking members to vote for the measure...
...Wee football coaches everywhere like to remind their teams, the best offense is a good defense. Luckily for head coach Tim Murphy, he’s blessed with both.Coming off of an Ivy League championship season, the Crimson has a lot of depth in a lot of places. Quarterbacks Chris Pizzotti and Liam O’Hagan are back in Cambridge for their fifth years. There are three running backs—juniors Ben Jenkins and Cheng Ho and sophomore Gino Gordon—competing for the top spot, and a front seven that is best in the Ivies...
...this does turn out to be a kind of Watergate for Chavez, it will have started under similarly clumsy circumstances. Antonini, 46, now claims the suitcase wasn't his - that he was carrying it for another Venezuelan passenger on the Cessna Citation that landed in the wee hours of Aug. 4, 2007, at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newberry - and that he wasn't aware of its contents. But Maria del Lujan Telpuk, the agent who stopped Antonini inside Newberry's VIP sector, says he became visibly nervous when she asked him to open the bag. "I had to insist," says...
Whatever the cause, this body of mine doesn’t know how to handle it. My stomach grumbles between meals. I lie in bed unable to drift off in the wee hours of the morning, then wake up in the middle of the afternoon. Somehow the city—with its flashing lights, euphoric ruckus, its paint-splattered walls and narrow, endless alleyways—has managed to halt my internal clock. Pause it, if you will...
...wandering down the beach screaming at the sea. Beat, cool, gone, way out—the anarchy which these terms imply immediately capture the anemic imaginations of minds exchanging ruts. IT to the audience (white collar San Francisco waiting in the Black Cat until girls go wild with wee hour jazz) is like slumming—the very method implies a kind of sacrilegious joy. IT to the Beat poets is a serious end, implying more than a playboy party—“freedom,” “escape...