Word: courtship
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...courtship has officially begun in Ivy League men’s basketball. The first Ivy Weekend is packed with exciting matchups for the Crimson (10-10, 2-4 Ivy). Harvard travels to Ithaca, New York today to face Cornell (15-7, 5-1 Ivy) in the two teams’ first meeting of the season. The Crimson then rounds out the Empire State road trip by traveling to New York City for a Valentine’s Day faceoff with Columbia...
...courtship is going, Obama is getting a solid salute back from the rank and file...
...Obama team, meanwhile, seems to have learned from Bush about dealing with the press. During the campaign, Obama, like Bush, exercised tight message control, limited press availability and disregarded old-media courtship rituals. Incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs pointedly told the New York Times Magazine that Obama never sat down with the Washington Post editorial board. "You could go to Cedar Rapids and Waterloo [Iowa] and understand that people aren't reading the Washington Post...
...mating ritual and that the male cannot hear frequencies above 1,000 Hz. In fact, the Cornell researchers have established that both the male and female of this subtropical species can detect frequencies as high as 2,000 Hz and that they are equal participants in the courtship process...
...much for the courtship. The intimidation of Europe's East - the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic - is also doing fine. Ukraine and the Baltics, after all, were once part of the Soviet Union, and the others were satrapies until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Never mind that all of them, with the exception of Ukraine, are now firmly embedded in E.U. and NATO; for Russia they are either the "near abroad" or what the tsars used to call Russia's "sphere of influence...