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...satisfied more than ever from what I have seen here that there is a great deal of nonsense in the talk we often hear about the difference between colleges,” he wrote...
...they perform in the election itself,” Hopkins said. He added that he does not anticipate that there will be a significant Bradley effect in Tuesday’s election. But Evan P. Apfelbaum, a doctoral candidate at Tufts, who recently authored two articles on how people deal with race in social situations, said that he had his doubts about whether or not a Bradley effect exists. “I’m not entirely convinced that such a discrepancy [between pre-election polls and election results] would necessarily be the result of individuals who are afraid...
...hand it to the Harvard Band. They had a good bit comparing Dartmouth students to NASA astronauts in space. In both place, those must deal with a dark vacuous space that has no signs of intelligent life and nothing to do on weekends...
...Congo, whose people have suffered through two wars and numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military support - to the rebels? The fighters claim to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from some of the same Hutu militias responsible for killing hundreds...
...east, a place whose warring factions have stymied the world just as badly as have those in Darfur or Somalia. Fighting between the rebel forces, led by Gen. Laurent Nkunda, an ethnic Tutsi, and Congolese troops had raged for months. It became clear in June that a January peace deal between the government and the rebels was collapsing, but little was done. "I've been working on Congo now for 10 years and I sometimes feel we're in this deja vu scenario. We see far too often that there is a flurry of diplomatic activity at moment of crisis...