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...pulled resources from other states and sent them to the Midwest. "We were running in Iowa an absolutely classic caucus operation," she says. "We were just methodically finding our voters and getting them to the polls." But that meant leaving Kerry's New Hampshire backyard nearly unattended, except for appearances by his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry and his campaign chairwoman, former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen. It wasn't easy to watch Kerry drop steadily in the public polls in a state that everyone knew he needed to win. Staff members on the floor below could hear Cahill's reaction...
After fighting a massive war to topple a dictator half way around the world, the Administration proved unwilling to defend a fragile democracy in its own backyard. It would hardly have required a massive military undertaking—as Rangel explained, “All we had to do was to send 200, 300 troops over there and tell those people to put down the arms.” The Administration’s inaction is already breeding considerable cynicism. “The problem for Haiti is that it’s not oil-rich,” said...
...simple administrative rules can take care of regulating the use of first-year common space. Unfortunately, the FDO does not have the same influence over Cambridge criminals. And frankly, the FDO should be more concerned with the possibility of a student getting raped in Thayer’s backyard than with the chance of finding an upper-class student studying in its basement. With two indecent assaults taking place within the gates of the Yard in the past two months, the FDO can no longer pretend that Harvard Yard is a safe haven for students...
...love playing with my brother,” Steve Cohen said. “I really missed having him out there last year. We’ve been playing together in the backyard, in school, for as long as I can remember...
...separated from Carmela in the incendiary Season 4 finale. He's living in the house that belonged to his deceased, emasculating mother (on The Sopranos, you can never escape your family history). Carmela's at casa Soprano with an angry teenage son--and a wild black bear invading the backyard, a menacing inversion of the family of ducks that settled in the pool in Season 1, precipitating Tony's first panic attack and trip to therapy. (Hammering home the metaphor, an animal-control expert tells Carmela that the corn Tony bought to feed the ducks has gone bad, attracting...