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...still a few first-tier Cabinet jobs that come with independent clout: State, Defense, Justice, Treasury and perhaps Homeland Security. But while the size of the Cabinet has doubled since the Kennedy administration, federal policymaking has shifted to the White House, and an ever-expanding army of West Wing staffers now controls most of the levers of power. Most Cabinet secretaries merely take orders on questions of consequence, which is one reason why independent thinkers like Christine Todd Whitman haven't lasted long in the Bush Cabinet, and why the Clintonite Robert Reich wrote a book called "Locked...
...games, whether it’s been clearing ground balls, faceoffs, the offense just holding onto the ball—that’s going to be a key for us.” And Smith didn’t get any aid from the wing players, who usually step in to help out a faceoff man having a rough outing. “We just weren’t in the right spot defensively,” Tillman said. “We weren’t able to hold onto the ball as well as we?...
...back of the net and kicked off his team’s scoring. Duke outshot the Crimson 37-20 for the game and had 39 ground balls to Harvard’s 21. “Duke was able to control the game and I think on faceoffs their wing play was stronger than ours at times,” Tillman said. “They do a good job of getting the ground balls. There’s usually a strong correlation between ground balls and the score.” —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro...
...added that he thought that it was unfortunate the West focuses only on Hizballah's military wing. "Can't anyone see Hizballah is just as much about an economic revolution as it is fighting Israel...
...Crusaders, the Sisters of Mercy and the Ku Klux Klan, it was adaptable. Over time, it evolved from its narrow association with nuclear disarmament into an insignia for countercultures of all kinds. Hippies made it a sort of all-purpose symbol of peacefulness. The environmental group Greenpeace, the militant wing of flower power, adopted it for its eco-defense campaigns...