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However, her fellow field athletes showed their collective strength amongst some of the best competition in the country. Senior Johanna Doyle placed third in the hammer throw with a toss of 51.93 meters. So far, Doyle’s skill has her amongst the top twenty in the country??and definitely the woman to beat in the Ivy League...
Sadly, the chances that Air America Radio and the new liberal radio program hosted by Al Franken ’73, will have more than a marginal influence on this country??s political climate are next to nothing. As one observer noted, conservative programs like those hosted by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are popular because conservative ideas are relatively simple and unsophisticated—and that’s exactly the level of discourse that’s likely to capture the attention of the apathetic, uncommitted voters who decide elections. As hilarious as he is, Franken...
...Increasingly, low-income students are enrolling in cheaper community and for-profit two-year and four-year colleges. Yet these schools are neglected in the current system, as little money remains after funding established colleges. In their present form, federal student-aid programs are no longer serving some of country??s most needy students...
...power to local authorities—June 30, well in time to disassociate his presidency from the volatile situation on the ground in Iraq. The president will be able to blame the mess—the suicide bombings, random violence, rampant unemployment and poor social services that plague the country??on the Iraqi administrators nominally in charge, rather than take responsibility for unimpressive reconstruction policy...
There is, however, some hope for liberal democracy in Russia. Putin seems genuinely committed to liberalizing the economy—as evidenced by his pre-election appointment of a number of pro-Western reformers to help manage the country??s economy. Putin’s political clout, meanwhile, has allowed him to brush aside many of the once-influential military and intelligence officials who often act more like Kremlin henchmen than civil servants. The super-wealthy “oligarchs” who ruled Russia during the Yeltsin years have also been neutralized. All of these reforms will...