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After a tense fall shopping period that featured a standoff involving HUPD, the relationship between CrimsonReading.org and The Harvard Coop seems to have warmed in time for the spring semester. Employees of the textbook-price-comparison Web site are continuing to copy the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) of texts for Harvard courses, and they say that unlike last semester, the Coop has turned a blind eye to the practice. “We told the Coop we’re not interested in a fight like last semester,” said CrimsonReading co-founder and Undergraduate Council...
...Clinton field office feels posh by comparison. Set across two floors above a pizzeria, its carpeted waiting area is furnished with a glass coffee table and a leather couch. Mat-framed quotations from Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston adorn the walls. During lunchtime, a team of about two dozen volunteers worked the phones in the glow of a wall-mounted flat-panel TV. Here, too, a steely resolve is palpable. "There is an excitement in being able to participate in the democratic process," says Lynne Hertzog, a Clinton volunteer who spent two days canvassing door-to-door...
...George W. Bush may have been thinking about his future legacy. But the speech felt more like a blast from the past. Not only did it bear a striking thematic resemblance to his 2003 address, but the word tally from each speech is very similar. A side-by-side comparison...
...months later dropout rumors resurfaced when the campaign announced it would accept public financing. Facing not one, but two candidates who were outraising him 3 to 1, Edwards was forced to accept matching public funds in a deal that severely limited how much he could spend in comparison to his rivals. But, again, Edwards weathered the storm and forged...
...correspondence with Prince Philip, were ever shredded: "My conscience is clear on what I destroyed." Still, prying open the wooden chest - and potentially unleashing those letters onto the world - may have been akin to opening Pandora's box. For a mythic figure like Diana, it's a fitting comparison...