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...certainly why national Democrats - including former North Carolina Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards, who recently came to campaign with Shuler - think this is one seat they can win against an incumbent Republican. With the Iraq war and political scandals cutting into Taylor's popularity, Charlie Cook, publisher of the respected Cook Political Report, has called the race a "toss-up," when he had previously described it as "leaning Republican...
...says. He says he promptly raised $600,000 and commissioned a poll that showed him closing to within 2 points of Doolittle. Now Brown says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has agreed to send him a check. He's still a long shot. But says Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report: "If it weren't for the Abramoff scandal, we wouldn't even be talking about these races...
...editors: Charles Drummond’s column “Primetime Segregation” (Sept. 27) troubled me deeply. Although he is completely correct about the ludicrousness of the new “Survivor: Cook Islands” television show, I feel it was in horrible taste for him to nonchalantly compare an amped-up version of the show to the South. Articles such as this that paint the South as continuing to be a bastion for intolerance and racism in The Crimson make life significantly more difficult for Southerners on campus. How many times have you been asked...
...Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that high levels of hostility may lead to pulmonary function deterioration. The study examined data gathered by the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study on 670 men aged 45 to 86 who were assessed on the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale in 1986 and then subjected to follow-up pulmonary function examinations obtained over the course of eight years. Researchers found that the men who were categorized as “high hostility” performed worse on every examination than less hostile men. Even when confounding variables such as smoking...
...merely an inspired concept, just like that show “Tiny House” (which millions were upset to learn was actually a clever Geico ad). Unfortunately, a similar, albeit toned-down, version of it just premiered last Thursday on CBS. The new show “Survivor: Cook Islands” is about as politically correct as the first draft of Khatami’s forum speech, before he remembered that lying is sometimes a good rhetorical tool. Although a more offensive show could be conceived (e.g. “Survivor: Gaza Strip?...