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...conservative candidate's runaway victory Monday night comes two weeks after center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi swept back into the Prime Minister's office by roundly defeating Walter Veltroni, who had served the past six years as Rome mayor. When he took up his campaign for national office, Veltroni passed the capital's center-left baton back to Rutelli, who had been a popular mayor through the 1990s. Rutelli, a vice-premier and high-profile culture minister under the recently folded government of Romano Prodi, had been strongly favored to defeat the center-right upstart in the Rome race...
...Smith” and “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” it’s that audiences will watch any male-female relationship unfold as long as it features an attractive, charismatic couple, once turned against itself with explosions-qua-flirtation, uniting in the end to defeat an apocalyptic common enemy. Even if the Clinton/Obama ‘dream ticket’ is nothing more than a pundit’s daydream, it might seem far more reasonable if the Chinese introduced lethal nanorobots into American bloodstreams—just a thought.This is not to impugn...
...knows what type of topics or language will come up, but competitors are warned that offensive subject matter such as sexual violence will be grounds for disqualification. Competitors are judged on their effective employment of language and wit, because, Shaket says, the goal is to “defeat them with your mind.” By scheduling the event during April visiting weekend, the organizers of “Outwit” hope to show prospective students a different side of Harvard. “We study a lot, but we also have lives and we do things like...
...Whoosh and Bong” may be, someday we’re all going to have to enter the crazy labyrinth. So, rather than be lonely minotaurs, I think it’s worth facing the labyrinth together, armed with the one thing that can defeat the darkness: love. An avenue called Elysian Fields leads between the Ninth Ward and the French Quarter. Maybe—just maybe—volunteers will bring from the French Quarter to the Ninth Ward an element of paradise...
After 28 years in power, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe seemed like he would finally be ousted as the opposition party claimed victory following the March 29 election, yet Mugabe has not accepted defeat. In the face of the country’s current uncertainty, the Harvard College Africa Business and Investment Club and the Committee on African Studies sponsored a panel entitled “A Post Election Zimbabwe: What Next?” yesterday evening. “The reason we wanted to do this was because we felt as Zimbabweans, since we can’t vote...