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As this story has progressed during the day, in retrospect I think that instead of talking to the Dallas Morning News about not using drugs in the past seven years, thus passing an FBI test, he should've just kept to his original strategy: "Fuck you.
To make sense of the shakier expertise both sides now confront, it helps to trace the history of child-care research through three unsettling waves during the past quarter century.
To this mix, Culturebox would like to add a candidate of its own: Chip McGrath, the editor of the New York Times Book Review . A former staff member at The New Yorker , McGrath was passed over when Robert Gottlieb acceded to power, but over the past few years he has done a bang-up job at the Book Review , giving it all of the heft of the New York Review of Books with none of the intellectual snobbery.
We asked participants who drank during the past 30 days which of four major types of alcoholic beverages beer, wine, wine cooler, and hard liquor they had drunk at least once.
As for drugs, Matt Drudge reports today that the Dallas Morning News will have a story saying that Bush, coyly, has said he hasn't used drugs in the past seven years, the amount of time necessary for an FBI OK at the White House.