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...Bayh to be notably more conservative than other Democratic Presidential hopefuls, with a 62 liberal rating, compared with 80 for Feingold, 81 for Hillary Clinton and 86 for John Kerry. But in the last year and half, as he has courted fundraisers around the country for a possible presidential bid, he?s changed his voting pattern a bit. He joined with only 12 of his colleagues (nearly all among the most liberal members of the Senate) in opposing Condi Rice's nomination for Secretary of State and then joined 21 other Democrats in voting against John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination...
...Torino Olympics [Feb. 27] more for the quarterfinal elimination of our men's hockey team than for our record haul of 24 Winter Olympic medals. Theo Luykenaar Burlington, Canada Learning Europe's Values I was very surprised by the Europeans' resistance to Indian tycoon Lakshmi Mittal's takeover bid for Arcelor steel [Feb. 13]. We in the East are working very hard to establish societies based on European values. But the European hostility toward an Indian's move into their world has shattered our confidence. On the merger issue, it is very sad to note that the Europeans turned...
...context of an unstable and uncertain geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and Iran, might cause controversy. Some critics of the event have suggested that behind the concert lay hidden motives—that an event to raise awareness of human rights issues in Iran was, in fact, a bid for a war to liberate the Middle Eastern country. The organizers of the concert have denied all such accusations—co-emcee Jack P. McCambridge ’06 said explicitly on Saturday, “[this event] is not for war?...
Thaksin's 2004 bid for Champions League winners Liverpool F.C. fizzled...
Representative Jim McGovern, D-Mass., visited Harvard Friday afternoon to draw support for gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick ’78 and to express his opposition to the war in Iraq. McGovern, who first backed Patrick’s bid last June, was one of the first in a series of high-profile figures to endorse Patrick, a former Dunster House resident. Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., and two former Clinton administration labor secretaries, Robert Reich and Alexis Herman, have also backed Patrick’s candidacy. Patrick served as the top civil rights enforcement official in the Clinton Justice...