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...lines for relatives. Many organized airlifts to evacuate their citizens, Britain sent two warships, and planes left Europe with bottled water, aid equipment and coffins. Fire fighters from Greece and forensic specialists from Germany and Britain rushed to the devastated areas. Thousands of Italians offered to adopt children orphaned by the tragedy and several Italian towns canceled their New Year's Eve fireworks and donated the money saved to the victims. Marvin Gerdel, 7, from Halver, Germany, went door-to-door with his mother asking for donations and raised $85. "I could not join my friends in the snowball fight...
...most aspiring Democratic candidates think that if they adopt Clinton’s centrism, they’ll be blessed with his charisma and the electoral love voters showered on him. These politicians are like the hordes of rappers obsessed with being the next Tupac. In his song “In Da Club,” Fifty Cent complains: “They like me; I want ‘em to love me like they loved Pac.” Substitute “Clinton” for “Pac,” and you?...
...termbill opting, leading to 18 pages of opt-options each year asking students to be “in” or “out” on everything from providing retractable awnings for the Au Bon Pain chess players to creating a school-wide “Adopt a Squirrel” program for our friendly Cambridge co-inhabitants. And recently, this newspaper declared itself for the principle of Equal Opting for All—arguing that HRL should not be allowed to opt-out of the abortion part of the UHS bill because other groups, like vegans...
...little hasty. Rosenberg isn’t trying to retire the Democratic Party and consign it to institutional obsolescence; he’s campaigning to lead the thing. The same goes for MoveOn. They’re not out to supplant the Dems, just to get them to adopt a more grassroots orientation...
...practically taken for granted. In this atmosphere, where liberal students see their views constantly vindicated by the highest figures of intellectual authority and conservatives see theirs derided, it becomes all too easy for liberal students to gain an easy and unchallenged overconfidence in their beliefs and for conservatives to adopt a dismissive attitude toward their liberal peers and academia as a whole...