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...Democratic campaigns can boast matching funds from megarich financier George Soros, feisty speeches by Al Gore and a make-your-own-campaign-commercial contest conceived by pop star Moby. These are the trophies of MoveOn.org an activist website with just seven staff members and no office. What it does have is an e-mail list with 1.8 million members, who have little more in common than anger and a tilt to the left...
...fairness to the President, everything--especially the role of the military--changed after Sept. 11, 2001. We may now be at the beginning of a protracted global contest against Islamic radicalism, a conflict that will require more subtlety and sophistication than the planning for the occupation of Iraq. At a similar moment, in the early 1960s, when the front lines of the cold war had spread from Germany to the Congo and Vietnam, John F. Kennedy announced his support for an augmented counterinsurgency force--and gave those soldiers real panache by allowing them to wear headgear frowned upon...
...Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink." Roman Popav, Russian prosecutor, who charged a liquor-store manager with manslaughter for hosting a vodka-drinking contest in which the winner died and five others ended up in intensive care
...Crimson’s exhibition game provided a sneak peek into Harvard coach Frank Sullivan’s thinking, but even after that contest, he remained unsure of how he would approach the season...
...time as sophomore intercollegiate No. 6 Will Broadbent and captain No. 21 Ziggy Whitman watched from the sidelines. The Crimson (1-0, 1-0 Ivy) opened its season by overwhelming No. 9 Brown (0-1, 0-1 Ivy) 9-0. Harvard did not drop a single game throughout the contest...