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...Hwang, Wong, Musa, Ross-Rieder, and Wimberley—are not current or former UC members. Including Goldenberg and Gillis, who joined the UC this semester, more than half of all presidential candidates have less than one semester’s experience serving in the Council. Noticeably absent from the UC tickets are FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 and SAC vice chair Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, both of whom have been active members of the UC since their freshman years. Adelman’s absence reduces the number of female candidates on this...
...been a prized skill and a ticket to success. Among our generation, however, the use of the words “like” and “um” predominates, and even at Harvard many students struggle to speak articulately. Yet public speaking is almost completely absent from the curriculum. The Faculty should make public speaking a high curricular priority...
...undecided. Republicans have clung to this math hard in recent days, with even Karl Rove pointing to electoral history to prove that things could have been worse. But Republicans spent most of the year boasting about how the redistricting of the past decade had made them all but bulletproof. Absent those new district lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns, Ornstein adds. Democrats did not lose a single seat - a feat the party had not accomplished since 1922. Even...
...would have been much better off if the franchise were still held hostage. The once-campy features of a typical Meat Loaf release—rock opera (Wikipedia says “Wagnerian”) vocals and orchestration, hilarious lyrics, immense sing-a-long possibility—are all absent or poorly done the third time around...
...Notably absent, however, will be North Korea's most important economic ally, China. Still, a top U.S. official says in meetings in Beijing last week, Secretary Condoleezza Rice received some encouragement when she pressed for tighter controls along China's thinly-patrolled 880-mile border with North Korea to enforce U.N. Security Council-mandated sanctions barring commerce that would advance that nation's nuclear and missile programs. "The Chinese reaffirmed that they support the principles and the objectives of the [Proliferation Security] Initiative but they're not at a point?where they're able to formally endorse the initiative," says...