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...ideas for the reform of the U.N., NATO, the IMF and the World Bank he personally drives forward into positive changes. Time will tell. In many instances, the best that can be said of our Prime Minister is that there is a lot of talk and very little action. Alan F. Smith, North Berwick, Scotland
...commitment of Obama's new coalition was never really tested in a difficult campaign; Obama went on to crush a Republican stand-in, Alan Keyes, after the incumbent decided not to run and the GOP's nominee had to withdraw amid a scandal. But the seeds of Obama's political future were planted during that Democratic primary campaign. At his primary victory party in May 2004, he noted the improbable triumph of a "skinny guy from the South Side with a funny name like Barack Obama." And then he repeated a line that had capped his campaign commercials...
...from May 30-June 1 in Newport, R.I.Boston College and host Brown will join the Crimson at nationals.Harvard fielded three boats at the regatta. The team’s pairs were senior skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Dolbec, skipper Garrity and junior crew Kerry Anne Bradford, and freshman skipper Alan Palmer and junior crew Lauren Brants.The secret to the Crimson’s success? Despite their youth and relative inexperience, the team kept a level head even in intense competition.“I think one thing the team as a whole did a good job of is learning...
...study on how Americans experience in pain. The findings, published Thursday in the British journal the Lancet, also found that participants who hadn't finished high school reported feeling twice the amount of pain as college graduates. "To a significant extent, pain does separate the classes," says Princeton economist Alan Krueger, who authored the study along with Dr. Arthur Stone, a psychiatry professor at Stony Brook University...
...truth is so alien to the distinguished MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, said Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, that Chomsky just might be a resident of his own planet—“Planet Chomsky.” Dershowitz railed against Chomsky’s claims about the Nakba—the Arabic word for what some believe was the forced Palestinian exodus from Israel in 1948 and 1949—in an hour-long discussion last night that was sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI). Though Dershowitz and Chomsky—who had spoken at an event...