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...quartet of soloists (Christine Ebersole, Jason Graae, Lewis Cleale and Amber Edwards) and, at the end, host Charles Osgood, displayed Mercer's ability to be sho'-nuff without showing off. "Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?" gets rhymes out of "mountains I clum ? oceans I swum." Another Oscar winner, "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," swings easy with "In the shank of the night, / When the doin's are right, / You can tell 'em I'll be there." Graae made an evening-long shtick of interrupting Osgood to sing yet more stanzas of "Spring, Spring, Spring," a Mercer...
...Bush could sign. When the NSA's policy of warrantless eavesdropping on some domestic calls was revealed by The New York Times in December, Democrats along with many Republicans also screamed from the rafters, but the program proved popular with the public. Presidential advisers thought it was such a winner that they put it in Bush's State of the Union address. Despite calls to investigate the program and shut it down, what the White House dubs the "terrorist surveillance program" continued unabated...
...print and initial online versions of this article misstated the name of Jasmine Xinting Zhang '06, winner of a $25,000 Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship...
...Blair's style of governing is also coming back to haunt him. He has often upraided his own party for being slow to modernize. That worked while he was a winner, but now that he's in decline, MPs who have built up years of resentment for being ignored and tightly managed by Downing St. apparatchiks have an opportunity for revenge. Many are focusing their anger on Blair's reforms...
...voluntary contribution to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, an organization that funds both a fellowship in Eliot House and a scholarship program in his Haddon Township, N.J. high school. More than $2,000 in donations were collected on Saturday. Vikram Viswanathan ’06, the first winner of the fellowship, spoke of Gilligan’s importance to both the House and his friends. “I think it’s just amazing to see how many people came out,” said Viswanathan. “He had such an impact...