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...Immigration control remains a prerogative of national rather than E.U. jurisdiction. Public anxieties are likely to prevent Britain, Ireland and Denmark from supporting the Blue Card. They are not expected to be able to block the scheme, but they will be able...
...host Saturday night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner—a “who’s who” of New Hampshire Democrats—Harvard students supporting Clinton joined a crowd of campaigners lining the street. Trying to outdo the Obama supporters down the block, the students wielded “totems”—lawn signs skewered on two-by-fours—and the colossal cardboard political signs that have invaded New Hampshire as the primaries approach. Harvard students supporting Dodd pinned down the senator for a photo when he stopped...
...second quarter, a coverage breakdown by Princeton resulted in an easy completion of about 20 yards before the junior rumbled for nearly 40 more, finally getting dragged down at the Tigers’ 16-yard line.“Usually, you base your game on how well you block, and when you catch passes, that’s just kind of a luxury you get,” Miller said.Earlier in the quarter, Ho turned a routine screen pass in the left flat into a 43-yard gain deep into Tigers territory by breaking a tackle, making a great cutback...
...Conine insists that the World Series adrenaline makes it easier for players to block out the cold than it would be for an early April regular season game. Still, "it's pretty miserable," he notes. Baseball can only hope that bad weather doesn't end up putting its TV viewers in the same kind of mood...
...President has made no secret that he intends to pick a fight with Dems on spending. He hopes to reclaim the mantle of fiscal conservatism that plays well to his increasingly dissatisfied base, threatening to block nine of the 12 annual spending bills. The Democrats are countering by front-loading the legislative calendar with the most sympathetic bills. They next plan to hammer Bush on a bipartisan water-resources bill that again he says costs too much money. "The President's vetoes are not consistent with the judgment of the American public," says House majority leader Steny Hoyer. "We believe...