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...year’s squad—will need that leadership to guide it through the Ivy season. And despite the pressure of captaincy, neither Dalton nor Lackner has shied away from their responsibility.“Everyone wants to be the captain, but no one understands how much actual work it is,” Delaney-Smith says. “Because here at Harvard, you’re leading leaders.”The pair of captains will likely provide a leadership stemming not from point totals and post-season accolades. Both captains know that on the court...
...content on their profiles averaged 2,429 supporters, while those who did not had only 429, according to Christine B. Williams, a Bentley College government professor. This pattern also held true for gubernatorial candidates. Facebook lists Fox News as its election results provider, and shows how the online and actual votes compared.In Virginia’s race, which would ultimately give the Senate to the Democrats, 57.06 percent of Facebook users supported Webb. Last week’s election yielded Webb 49.6 percent of the vote.In four of six governorship races highlighted by Facebook, users also supported the Democratic candidates...
...What does Beazley Labor stand for? Investing in the future; a fair reward for effort; building up the nation; a cleaner environment; regional security; Australian values. Howard would feel comfortable with that list?sometimes the two leaders stand behind the same white picket fence. Of course, it's the actual policies that have to pass muster, first with the professional scrutinizers and then with voters. The tighter the fit between the oratory and what Beazley puts on the table, the better chance Labor will have of securing its base and winning new voters in marginal seats...
...Iraq war, I recall National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice stating that, in lieu of solid proof that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I also recall getting into heated debates and insisting that North Korea was the actual case of a dictator working toward acquiring WMD. While the Bush Administration pursued a war in Iraq, the smoking gun turned into a mushroom cloud in Pyongyang. The Bush Administration has failed miserably in addressing the North Korean threat, and its policies (or lack thereof) have made us all less...
...Then came coins. Actually it was just dimes, which I collected in albums for the year or two that I lingered on the cusp of adolescence. Coins seemed more practical than rocks, which had not been usable as currency since the actual Stone Age, though my own collection was never worth more than the sum of its dimes. (All the same, to this day I get a chill any time I find myself around the intersection of Market Street and Dolores in San Francisco, where the U.S. mint sits on a hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that...