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...region in the May 13 elections. Most commentators agreed, especially after the PP and the Socialists joined in an informal coalition to dislodge the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), whose incumbent 'lehendakari', Juan José Ibarretxe, looks a lot like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and whose oratory is as awkward as Mayor Oreja's is fluid...
...deep ambivalence, our awkward love for both order and liberty. We don't want people stockpiling weapons and holding children hostage in Texas religious sects, but we don't want tanks firing on church camps in Waco either. We want something done about hate groups, but we don't want FBI sharpshooters killing militants' wives on Idaho mountaintops. We don't want China stealing our nuclear secrets, but we don't want a racial-profiling witch hunt. We don't want organized crime to hide its computer files online, but we don't like the idea that...
...reading period also can, and should, be a time to look forward. Preparations for next fall are underway all around you. Classes are being planned, new student leaders recruited and reforms implemented. And Harvard surely needs it. Not only does the school sit in an awkward position on a number of issues—from a living wage to tenuring junior Faculty—but change is also a necessary part of University life, the constant improvement that ensures success. In that spirit, I recommend three changes which are desperately needed to make Harvard better...
...propelling myself on skis resulted in net zero progress. I've fallen down skiing countless times, I've stumbled, I've crumpled, I've flopped. I've jammed a pole into the snow between my skis and raked it up my crotch. I've explored just about every awkward motion possible while trying to ski, but up till today, I have never simply stopped moving forward, despite every muscle firing in the right sequence and straining to move me forward. After a surprised moment in this strange equilibrium I let out a wheezy grunt and gently slumped forward. From this...
...Blair was originally going to call it for May but postponed it because of the foot and mouth crisis. It's awkward to have an election campaign when quarantine rules prevent you from walking around certain areas, and the Tory opposition would have used that to make him look arrogant and insensitive. So Blair postponed, against the wishes of many in his own party, and the gamble appears to have paid off. Foot and mouth is on the decline, and he's gotten credit for being sensitive. He was never going to win the countryside anyway, and he doesn...