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...former BGLTSA co-chair, sent an e-mail to the group’s members yesterday listing how members of last year’s council voted on the controversial ROTC bill. The bill urged the University to make it easier for students in ROTC to count their Harvard courses for credit towards military studies...
...experienced reader of baseball biographies would know that when Jane Leavy began her book about Sandy Koufax, she was already behind in the count. Strike one: most baseball biographies are about as interesting as foul balls. Strike two: in the 36 years since he last threw his atomic fastball, Koufax has accommodated the intrusions of reporters about as frequently as he used to accommodate opposing hitters...
...such considerations evidently count for less. The SAR administration knows it can push whatever it likes through the legislature thanks to post-colonial arrangements like the skewed electoral system to which Britain was a willing party in the end, despite the brief flowering of democracy under the last governor, Chris Patten. It has already shown its muscle by referring a decision by the top court to Beijing for "interpretation" when Hong Kong judges came down against it. Tung has installed a "ministerial system" of appointees in place of the civil service?they are said to be more accountable, but that...
...unflappable Senate majority leader had stormed into an aide's office that morning sputtering, "This is outrageous!" Then he raged some more during a meeting in which he and other Senators were supposed to be reviewing the latest Hispanic polling numbers. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin finally cooled him down: "Count to 10. Call some close friends. Wait an hour before you say anything." When Daschle took the Senate floor later that morning, everyone knew something big was coming; more than half the Democratic Senators emerged from their offices and committee rooms to see it for themselves...
...villa he shares with Magdalena, his wife of 57 years. That was before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia banged hard on Bobetko's door in the Croatian capital's tranquil Tuskanac neighborhood - and demanded to see him in the Hague. The tribunal's five-count indictment, unsealed on Sept. 20, charges Bobetko, the Croatian army's former Chief of Staff, with "crimes against humanity" and "violations of the laws or customs of war" during the conflict in the autonomous Serbian region of Krajina in 1993. Bobetko vows that he will never be tried by the international body...