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...widely reported to be wildly enthusiastic about their choice, as well as frequently anguished about that same choice when they’re alone in the ballot booth. Whether the drama concludes at the convention or before, either the woman or the African-American will walk away a bitter loser, and people who assume that this bitterness will not have broader repercussions for the party in November and beyond are kidding themselves...
...visit by the former Harvard graduate student marks the next chapter in Trivers’ bitter feud over Israeli policy with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, whose influence, Trivers alleges, was instrumental in preventing Trivers from speaking at the University in the past...
...Development Party (AKP) has moved to lift a ban on young women wearing headscarves at universities. The country's secularists, who see the headscarf as a symbol of political Islam, are up in arms over the proposed reform. The debate is the latest installment in the ongoing and increasingly bitter tug of war between the government and a militantly secularist establishment long used to getting...
Harvard has the history of being one of the premier squash programs in the country, but in the last ten years Trinity has dominated college squash. Last season the Crimson provided an adequate battle for the Bantams, but still fell in a nail-bitter...
...wasn't the only suggestion Sarko's presidency is deflating. New polls confirm the precipitous drop in Sarkozy's approval rating, from his near-record high of 65% in July 2007 to 41% this month. That low matched the February 1996 score of former President Jacques Chirac, after a bitter three-week national strike derailed a proposed pension reform - and led to the left's return to power the following year. Pollsters ascribe Sarkozy's descent to the defection of older and traditional conservative voters resentful of his high-profile love life and unabashed materialism, and to still undelivered promises...