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...Strangely enough, the campaign may come down to which pro-war politician Shays can align himself with in the eyes of the voters. While Farrell likens Shays to Bush, Shays says his Iraq views are more similar to those of Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut's pro-war but beloved Democratic Senator. The fact that Bush and Lieberman's views are on the Iraq War are almost indistinguishable may be beside the point. Like any moderate politician, Shays' best campaign strategy may be to act more like his opponents than his allies...
...form a coalition with smaller parties, he will have more influence on selecting a government than Yushchenko. That would likely undermine the President's drive to integrate Ukraine more closely with the West, toward an eventual aim of membership in the European Union. Instead, Ukraine would once more align itself with Moscow. "This is a very special election," says Volodymyr Lytvyn, the Rada speaker and leader of the centrist People's Bloc. "At stake is whether Ukraine has passed the point of no return to its so recent authoritarian past." The orange government came to power promising fundamental change that...
...name—one of several he holds.In his workshop in the back room, he sits at a table that groans under the weight of old books in various states of disrepair. Some lie sandwiched between unbound covers, and a few are clamped in vices he uses to align their bindings.The walls of the workshop are matted with photographs and old correspondence. An old orange couch sits in the corner. It looks suspiciously as if it’s also served as a bed.Marshall himself, a polymath with sensibilities far from the commercial mainstream, recalls a dying Square culture shaped...
...curse Harvard’s silliness in calling majors “concentrations” and having its exams after the holidays instead of before. A lot of folks on campus have fully bought into this theory. For years I’ve heard a call for Harvard to align itself with the majority of the country and hold exams before Christmas, allowing for a longer winter break and causing the removal, shortening, or at least restructuring of Reading Period and Intersession. I come before you today as a dissenting opinion, someone who thinks we are all too quick...
...Party “pushed aside some of the normal constituency processes to have what we call in Canada, Ignatieff parachuted into the riding,” said Albo. Since his departure from academia to enter the upcoming Canadian elections, Ignatieff has been criticized in Canada for failing to align with the Liberal Party by supporting U.S. President George W. Bush’s stance on American foriegn policy and the war in Iraq. “The problem here is, people are particularly focused on his pro-Bush position and his pro-war position, which the Canadian public...