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...Relay for Life which had a booth at the event. “We had people lining outside the door for the first fifteen minutes,” said Emily W. Hogeland ’07, who chaired the event’s Programming and Promotions Committee. One Currier blocking group did particularly well in the raffle, with four members winning prizes including a video iPod and some of the gift certificates, according to Christopher N. Acton-Maher ’07, who won an iHome speaker and is also a Crimson editor. “Our block-mate [Joseph...
...just past 11 on a brilliantJerusalem morning, and Ehud Olmert is sitting down for breakfast. Olmert lives on a serene block in the city's German Colony, in an airy three-story town house decorated with canvases painted by his wife Aliza. As Olmert serves cucumber salad and Aliza offers to make omelettes--to go with the smoked salmon, roasted vegetables, olives and cheese--it's easy to forget that the couple across the table is the most powerful in Israel. Easy, that is, until you spot the six-person security detail posted outside the front door. And until...
...compact. And critics say the government is trying to slash funding for important support programs, including the Carl Perkins Act, which has funded vocational education across the country since 1984. Spellings says President Bush has proposed converting Perkins and other support programs like GEAR UP and Upward Bound into block grants for states to choose their own fixes. As long as states get results, says Spellings, "we're not going to prescribe particular programs or strategies like vocational education...
...aggressive serve, coasting to an easy 30-19 game one victory. “We had trouble passing [Peoples],” McKiernan said. “But we also need to serve a little tougher.” Harvard played much better in the second frame, establishing its block against the Bobcats’ powerful attack. Though Lees-McRae jumped ahead by a 9-4 margin—driven again by Peoples’ strong serving—the Crimson clawed back and tied the score at 11. From that point on, neither team led by more than...
...Granted, when such a watered down bill came back to the Senate, Reid could still block it by filibustering. But in a election year, Reid knew that could be political suicide, forcing fellow Democrats to vote against a bill Republicans would portray as securing America's broken borders. Those Democrats who were around in the last mid-term election are still smarting from the votes they cast against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, an issue Republicans cashed in handily at the polls. Giving Frist another National Security vote to beat the Democrats with, they feared...