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Where Hadfield kicked off his vice-presidential bid with Grimeland with no council experience last year, he has acted as Eliot House UC representative since February...
Former Kennedy School of Government professor and human rights expert, Michael G. Ignatieff, lost his bid for the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party in a surprise upset on Saturday. Stéphane Dion, a former professor at the University of Montreal, took the party leadership with 54.7 percent of the delegates’ votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left...
...Revolution, a more folksy title than the Lebanese term, Independence Intifadeh, which smacked of radicalism. But with six ministers having resigned since Nov. 11, sectarian tensions rising and government officials fearing for their lives, the vision of a new Lebanon is dimming fast--and with it, the Administration's bid to build a positive legacy in the Middle East beyond the wreckage of Iraq...
...reporting on the Republicans' loss of Congress took a look at what the triumph of moderates and pragmatists will mean for domestic and foreign policy. Many readers were eager to bid good riddance to scandals and a faltering war strategy, while others remained wary or skeptical of any bipartisan gain...
...years, the U.S. and its allies have cajoled, threatened and sanctioned North Korea in an unsuccessful bid to persuade its rogue leader, Kim Jong Il, to abandon his nuclear-weapons program. Now, the U.S. hopes, it's hitting Kim where it really hurts. Following a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the export of luxury goods to North Korea, last week the U.S. published a list of some 60 forbidden fruits, including iPods, Segway scooters, cognac, leather handbags, silk underwear, plasma TVs, baby grand pianos, jetskis, snowmobiles and eau de toilette. It's not just an attempt to personally aggravate...