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...private fund raiser for Senator Rick Santorum last week in Sewickley Heights, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Santorum posed for photos with the President at the airport and leaned into a smiling handshake with political guru Karl Rove. But it was telling that Santorum, who is trailing state treasurer Bob Casey by 10 points in the latest polls, scheduled no public appearances with Bush. When Cheney flew to Newark, N.J., earlier in the week to raise nearly $400,000 that state senator Tom Kean Jr. badly needs in his bid for the U.S. Senate, the candidate didn't show up until...
...most appealing argument the Democrats are offering may be their candidates, who were recruited more for how they fit the districts in which they are running than for how they match the party's national ideology. In Pennsylvania, which has an active bloc of Catholic voters, Casey is an opponent of abortion rights. That same position cost his father, then the Governor, a speaking spot at the 1992 Democratic Convention. For what could be two close races against female Republican incumbents--Heather Wilson in New Mexico and Deborah Pryce in Ohio--Emanuel found women challengers. Former NFL quarterback Heath Schuler...
...implemented, Harvard students might once again face the kind of mandatory testing many of them experienced through state-wide exams in grade school. But Harvard “would be reluctant to accept any form of standardized testing,” Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said in an interview yesterday. “Standardized curricula or testing would limit our ability to educate,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said at a meeting of the U. S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education in downtown Boston...
...became a sectarian slaughterhouse. Instead of protecting citizens from each other, National Police units stood by as Shi'ite rioters - and rival militiamen from Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army - stormed Sunni mosques and swarmed over Sunni neighborhoods, according to numerous reports, including some confirmed by U.S. Gen. George Casey, commander of American forces in Iraq...
...attention of the audience upwards, especially when the empty chairs suddenly start rocking wildly as the actors progressively anger the watching father—perfectly capturing the absurd, otherworldly element that runs throughout the play.That element works especially well in contrast to the drabness of the costumes (designed by Casey M. Lurtz ’07), which uniquely complemented each character’s suffering in their simple styles. The mother’s dress was the piece de resistance, a frumpy black robe that evoked a pelican in its stuffy folds.The music, compiled by Dorin, is fundamental...