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...rivalry is two-fold, and extends beyond an annual football game. “We actually have a Yale banner hanging up somewhere in the house, and a Harvard pillow somewhere else,” said Fish, whose mother went to Yale and father went to Harvard. Unable to boast about their school’s football prowess, Yale siblings of Harvard students largely tease them for Harvard’s perceived lack of social life, according to several Harvard students. In an e-mail Sunday, Fish wrote that his sister retaliated to his text message via a Facebook wall...
Black Republicans often boast that theirs is the Party of Lincoln and that it was the GOP during Reconstruction that propelled several blacks into elected office. Now, however, Obama is being cast as the new Lincoln. And though George W. Bush won a surprisingly large 11% of the national black vote in 2004 - partly by appealing to African Americans' fundamentally conservative social sensibilities - the numbers have once again becoming overwhelmingly Democratic, extending a trend that began in the 1960s. This year, 95% of blacks cast their vote for Obama. (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart...
...earthquake." While the details of exactly when and where the money will be spent were not revealed, Sunday's announcement did make it clear that the government not only aims to boost its spending on infrastructure and projects but also seeks to get notoriously savings-obsessed Chinese consumers - who boast the highest household-savings rate in the world - to do more spending of their own. The package proposes to do this by, among other things, cutting taxes and abolishing existing limits on commercial banks' credit-lending. The plan also advances the government's oft stated desire to improve living conditions...
Meanwhile, her relationship with Obama is still a work in progress. Perhaps it would be best to describe it as a recovery in progress. Though Clinton's aides boast of the many campaign events she did on his behalf, "this is not a friendly relationship," says an ally. And yet a closer working relationship would be in the interests of both. Clinton knows from experience how much his health-care-reform effort will ride on having effective allies on Capitol Hill. And when his presidency hits its inevitable bumps - whether those come from disappointing his liberal allies or enraging...
...several weekends since the school year began. “We’ve personally contacted upwards of 15,000 New Hampshire voters through phone calls and door-to-door efforts,” said Colin J. Motley ’10, the president of the HRC. The Dems boast similar numbers, having knocked on almost 15,000 doors in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania as of yesterday, according to their Web site. New Hampshire voted for Repulibcan George W. Bush in 2000 before flipping to Democrat John F. Kerry in 2004. Both races were decided by a margin of less...