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...amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone for several Democrats who were not present - and, in one amusing absent-minded moment, even for one, Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin...
...outfit known as the Christian Peacemakers Teams - Canadians Harmeet Sooden, 32, and Jim Loney, 41, and Briton Norman Kember, 74 - were freed by British special forces and Canadian law enforcement. The raid, born of intelligence extracted from a freshly captured prisoner only three hours earlier, oddly found the kidnappers absent; alas it couldn?t save Virginian Tom Fox, 54, whose tortured body had been found on a rubbish heap earlier this month...
...minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter, it’s already been widely implemented by live-in couples, with the hushed complicity of a University that has largely abrogated its role as a stand-in for absent parents.What bothers me about the issue is not co-ed housing but the inflated rhetoric and sense of entitlement employed in its defense and justification. Yesterday, on a lopsided 31-1 vote, the Undergraduate Council (UC) declared that students enjoy a “right to self-determination in deciding with whom...
Minus the external conditions in Williamsburg, Harvard also had to deal with an on-court problem: the return of Horned Frogs No. 1 and national No. 12 Nicole Leimbach, who had been absent for the teams’ last competition...
...least one arena in which an ethnic North African can hold his own with native Spaniards. Not that Savalli thinks of himself as African. His home country is France. Born in the southern city of Arles, he's a product of the kind of integration that seemed so absent during the recent French riots: his mother was born in Morocco; his father comes from Italy. He has never set foot in North Africa, does not speak Arabic, and frequently eats pork. And, he says, "the Muslim Matador that people speak of - he is another person, not me. I'm French...