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...same message - a button dubbed "The Kiss," showing President Bush putting his lips on the right cheek of Senator Joe Lieberman at the State of the Union in 2005. The bloggers have focused much of their energy and money this year in supporting Lamont's campaign to defeat Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary this August, believing that one of the best ways to improve the Democratic Party is to purge it of people like Lieberman. Only George W. Bush was attacked at the conference more than Lieberman...
...urgent concern is a case on the detainees' legal rights that the Supreme Court is expected to decide by July. That case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, could determine whether prisoners have the right to be charged in U.S. civilian courts. Any decision in favor of the detainees would mean a defeat for the elaborate legal framework the Administration has developed to hold Gitmo detainees and other prisoners without charges--and often without trial--by classifying them as "enemy combatants...
...been condemned to opposition since Lionel Jospin's calamitous defeat in the first round of the 2002 presidential elections, followed by a parliamentary vote that gave the Right an unassailable majority in the National Assembly. Now, 11 months from next May's presidential elections, a Socialist politician is not only defining the political debate, but also polling better than Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the best candidate the otherwise hapless conservatives can produce...
...clear "political and propaganda victory" for the U.S. and Iraqi governments. But he added that its lasting importance depends on two things: "the overall resilience of the insurgency in Iraq, and how well the new Iraqi government can follow up with actions that a build a national consensus and defeat and undermine all the elements of the insurgency...
...trend? I was amazed this spring when one of my professors mandated a daily reading of The New York Times: it was the first time in four years at Harvard my coursework required attention to current events. This is not to suggest that the University could single-handedly defeat civic indifference merely by requiring all students to read The Crimson. But if Einstein is right and education is what remains after we have forgotten everything we learned in school, perhaps we should place more emphasis on the things we take from the Harvard experience that cannot be found in textbooks...