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Favorite part about Harvard: Cross-country skiing outside of Massachusetts...
...waning days of 2007, as the Washington political set scurried to get out of town for holiday vacations, Martin bulldozed through a dramatic relaxation of the cross-ownership rules that ensure a diversity of voices in our local media markets. Now, local media moguls can buy both a television station and the major newspaper in the local market. And because people of color and women are more likely to be single-station owners, they are especially susceptible to local consolidation efforts...
...think it was pretty apparent that the guy pushed the net off.”Another disputed call came with just 21 seconds left to play. Colgate’s Tyler Burton shoved senior Jon Pelle after the whistle, sending Pelle flying into the Raider net. Burton received a cross-checking penalty on the play, but there would be no crucial late power play for Harvard, as Pelle was also sent to the box for unsportsmanlike conduct because the officials deemed that he had taken a dive.While frustrated by the penalty, MacDonald stressed that calls had gone against both teams...
...South America's 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar, still likes to wear his red army beret. But according to a recent Chavez biography, he once told a U.S. diplomat that for all his bellicose rhetoric, "I know where the red line is. And I'm not going to cross that line - I just go up to that little edge." He demonstrated some sense of the limits on his power by conceding defeat in the referendum last year when critics had widely expected him to reject it and cross the red line into Castro-style dictatorship. Chavez and Uribe both...
...Castro, it's how to summon the threat of the U.S. to distract his countrymen from problems at home. And if there is one thing Uribe has learned from his pal George W. Bush, it's how to manipulate the terrorist threat to amass greater executive power. But a cross-border war would most likely backfire on both men - especially Chavez, whose strategy this time may have been a miscalculation, as Venezuelans haven't exactly taken to the streets to answer his martial call. Chavez plans to seek another referendum on constitutional amendments such as abolishing term-limits before...