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...curved knives Lindsay M. Liles ’10 is brandishing glint in the wintry sunlight that streams into the common room of her Mather quint. She locks their hooked ends together, and for a moment it looks like she is going to swing them over her head in lethal, long-handled circles. But then she puts the knives down. She wants to show off the thick sparkly ribbon she sewed in high school, as well as the sequined ballroom dance costume she just finished altering. “I love glitter,” she says. ALTER EGOLiles...
...disparate Latina community. “All these people have the same identity but experience it in a different way,” she said, speaking of Latinas, in an interview before her speech. Schools like Harvard, she went on, “help people find common ground.” They are also important, Londoño said, in educating Latinas of their opportunities—“in helping them articulate their future action and strengthening everyone in their own individual pursuits.” The day-long conference, according to its Web site...
...troika" - representatives of U.S., E.U., and Russia - officially declared on Monday that the four-month-long talks between Kosovo and Serbia have failed. From the beginning, it was clear that there was very little common ground between the parties: the Kosovo Albanians opted for nothing less than independence, while Serbs vowed that they would never accept it. Belgrade now says it is ready to retaliate against Kosovo if it tries to secede, as well as against any country that chooses to recognize...
...news may be bleakest for those who hoped the country might tire of division and acrimony and be ready to come together behind common concerns. Voters in the two parties remain deeply divided over the qualities they seek in a President and the concerns that most worry them. Many more Republicans than Democrats are looking for a candidate with strong moral character, while Democrats are much more likely to seek someone with good judgment who cares about people like them. National security is set solidly at the front of G.O.P. minds, while Democrats continue to focus on economic issues. There...
...speech marked a shift in approach for Romney, who has previously sought to highlight areas of agreement between his faith and evangelical Christianity. Now he is attempting to take it one step further, drawing a circle around religious conservatives that includes evangelicals and Mormons, and defining them as in common cause against what he termed "the religion of secularism...