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...worry about the former Arkansas Governor, whose sunny, underfinanced, overperforming presidential quest is generating buzz. "You never put the crosshairs on a dead carcass," Huckabee tells me. "Somebody sees me as a real wall mount, and that's a good thing." Antitax groups and conservative columnists have also begun criticizing Huckabee, mostly for the tax hikes he oversaw in Little Rock...
...College has begun considering ways to improve how Houses manage events where alcohol is present, including possibly standardizing guidelines across the different dorms...
...stacks of food writing, from the purely instructional to the anthropological. In the evenings I would return home weighed down with John Thorne’s accounts of diners in rural Maine and Penelope Casas’ explications of Spanish foods and wines. Now that the school year has begun, I have unlimited access to food again. But the monotony has become too much; red spiced chicken is only so exciting the third time around. I am beginning to lose interest in the dining hall’s feeble attempts to entice me. Unfortunately, I’m still broke...
...government, since May 2006. In that same period of time, international oil prices have risen about 30%, sticking refineries with spiraling costs for the crude they buy and shrinking profits for the gasoline they sell. Some smaller refineries stopped production altogether to avoid losses, while others begun hoarding their crude supplies, leading to gas shortages around the country...
...Musharraf's declining popularity has even begun to impinge on his ability to play the war-on-terror role for which Washington is depending on him. A new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org shows that just 44% of Pakistanis are in favor of sending troops in to the tribal areas to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban. "The Pakistani people are not enthusiastic about Musharraf," says Steven Kull, director of the polling organization. "[They] do not support his recent crackdown on fundamentalists, and are lukewarm at best about going after al-Qaeda or the Taliban in western Pakistan. It appears that...