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...Institute of Politics (IOP) announced today that its spring class of resident fellows will include Kerry M. Healey ’82, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Massachusetts who lost her bid for the state’s top job last year; Nancy L. Johnson ’57, the 12-term Republican congresswoman from Connecticut who was ousted by a Democratic challenger two months ago; and Lamont, who defeated incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., in an August primary before Lieberman stormed back to win the general election...
...from countries such as Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil and Canada; that much new oil from non-OPEC nations hasn't hit the global pool in three years, and it should easily counteract the production cuts OPEC is planning. The extra capacity also means oil traders may be less inclined to bid up prices at the first signs of political turmoil in hot spots around the world. "What's changed is the perceived cushion we have to respond to political events," she says...
...bid is successful, Schwartz could become the first woman in the department’s history to be tenured...
...hype and drama that attended the speculation about Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid, his actual announcement was rather tepid. There was no Oprah performance filled with wordplay on "audacity" and "hope," no tension-filled live broadcast, no Monday Night Football gag, just the oddly flat, open-collared video announcement; perhaps he's already trying to tamp expectations downward, after so many weeks in the hype machine. The substance of his announcement leaves little doubt that he's sincerely interested in running, and the polls suggest that even if the YouTube clip was a little disappointing, he benefits from people...
...Rice also warned Abbas that the Bush Administration took a dim view of the Palestinian leader's proposed trip to Damascus for a meeting with Hamas's exiled leader Khaled Mashaal in a bid to pacify the near-civil war that has erupted in recent months between militants of Fatah and Hamas. Rice made it clear to Abbas, said one Palestinian source, that "she's worried Hamas will impose its conditions on Abbas...