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...Israel A HAWK'S RACE TO LOSE In the run-up to parliamentary elections on Feb. 10, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (above, center) is widely considered the favorite to become Israel's next Prime Minister. Most polls put Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party ahead of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's ruling Kadima Party and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Labor Party, by several seats. Following the war in Gaza, national security has become the campaign's central issue, and Netanyahu has accused his rivals of prematurely ending the offensive against Hamas...
...decided to enlist the most influential people in the world: celebrities with things to promote. With its free food, velvet-rope access and photographers waiting outside, the MySpace Café became the obvious campaign headquarters, and within two days Billy Bob Thornton, Téa Leoni, Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Benjamin Bratt and NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman were all saying they wanted to see JSCUA more than any other short. Though, admittedly, they didn't seem to know about any other shorts, and I might have told MacLachlan I'd buy the $65 bottle of cabernet sauvignon he makes. You have...
After this year’s pep rally with popular DJ Girl Talk was abruptly cut short, the CEB came under fire from students in and outside of the Board. Former presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the Undergraduate Council Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alneada D. Biggers ’10—who both helped organize the pep rally—were forced to answer questions during the campaign about their role in planning the botched performance...
...Last year, after months of public hearings, a Maryland state commission on the death penalty voted 13-9 to recommend that it should be abolished. In its final report the commission, which was headed by former U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, cited the usual objections to capital punishment - cost, racial and jurisdictional disparities in sentencing, its ineffectiveness as a deterrent against crime and the possibility that innocent people might be put to death. One of the commission's members was Kirk Bloodsworth, who had been on death row in Maryland for two years in the mid-1980s before...
...Such a requirement would throw the weight of the state behind the current drift toward apartheid schooling,” said Riordan, who pointed out that the current charter schools in Cambridge already serve much higher populations of at risk students than their district counterparts. At Benjamin Banneker, a charter school in Cambridge, about 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, compared to the district average of about 45 percent. At both the Community Charter School of Cambridge and Prospect Hill Academy, the number is about 50 percent. Riordan said that mandating these population quotas would hurt...