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...defense, far from peak performance, was more compact than the night before, but junior goaltender Ali Boe lost the shutout bid on an unassisted power-play goal by Christine Bailkowski early in the final period...
...Travolta’s last performance as Chili Palmer was in a compact movie about a gangster from Brooklyn making his mark on Hollywood. In this sprawling sequel, Palmer decides to break into the music business by producing hot starlet Linda Moon (Milian). Unfortunately, she is under contract to unscrupulous sleazeballs played by Harvey Keitel and Vince Vaughn. In the process of becoming Moon’s manager, hilarity ensues. Or at least, it is supposed...
Still, the details of Hwang’s speech were far from the only reason that students arrived at Burden Auditorium en masse. Advertisements promising a free flash drive—a compact, pocket-sized device that can be attached to a computer via a USB port, and stores data in much the same fashion as an internal hard drive—was a major factor in some students’ decision to attend the speech...
...reform that we are introducing at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum tonight at 6 p.m. Our plan would shift control of congressional redistricting into the hands of a nonpartisan commission independent from the state legislature. We layout several guidelines that commissioners should follow: every district should be as compact as possible, district lines should coincide as much as possible with municipal, neighborhood, and physical boundaries, as well as with state legislative district lines. States, of course, vary in their institutional make-up, and we do not expect our plan to be one-size-fits-all. We do, however, hope...
...Good things happen when soft and hard power - carrot and stick - are used in tandem. That's what some 50 foreign-policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic proposed last week. They fashioned a "compact" of compromises on the most recalcitrant issues dividing the U.S. and the E.U., starting with Iraq. As part of a grand barter, the Europeans would step up training, increase spending on reconstruction from $300 million to $1 billion for 2005, and write off half the country's debt; in exchange, the U.S. would give Europe a role in determining Iraq's economic and political...