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...candidates could hardly be more different in style than Foot and Thatcher. The Labor Party leader looked and acted on the stump like an absent-minded professor: white hair often mussed, head bobbing right and left, tweed suits rumpled. Foot shambled amiably through the crowds, often throwing a comradely arm around a fan or bussing a comely voter...
...contractors expired when the authority that adopted it - the Coalition Provisional Authority - closed up shop. The U.S. could subsequently have brought contractors to trial in courts in Iraq, the U.S. or elsewhere, says Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution, but "the political will to use them has been completely absent." By that measure, any fix to the rules of contractor immunity will only be as good as the U.S. willingness to prosecute...
...Granted, it didn’t help to be without sophomore center Pat Magnarelli, absent due to a knee injury sustained in the Dartmouth loss weeks earlier. Magnarelli had been quickly becoming Harvard’s go-to-guy in the paint, and losing him was a big blow...
...serious and the humorous, discussing filmic violence and politics while sharing anecdotes about his experiences working with the likes of Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman. When first released, Penn’s films were groundbreaking for their graphic representations of violence and social tensions that had been previously absent in movies, which Penn said was intended to echo the brutal assassinations of prominent leftist individuals, the rebellious youth and counter-cultural movements sweeping the nation, and the hostile oppositional beliefs so prevalent in American society at the time. Penn described a snapshot of the atmosphere of American society...
...emphasis on science and technology in our national discourse has been dangerously absent in the White House, Congress, and the press,” Holt wrote in a statement to his constituents...