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...James Gandolfini) has fretted about terrorism and suffered through recessions; wife Carmela (Edie Falco) dabbled in stocks during the NASDAQ craze and in real estate when that market took off. There have been parallels to politics--like Tony's Clintonian appetites and his Bushian yen for simple answers--and direct references, as when Carmela copped to voting for Bush...
...TEHRAN TO CARACAS Iran and Venezuela seem unlikely allies. But a flirtation that started with a mutual distaste for Yankee imperialists was consummated in March with a direct Iran Air flight between the countries...
...Masset explains, the loading up of the early February calendar can only mean that huge pieces of real estate and population like California will get lots of campaign ads and literature but will see little of the candidates themselves. "Those states will see many political commercials and receive enough direct mail to deforest a small state," Masset wrote in a recent commentary. "But they won't be talking to candidates, which means candidates won't be talking to them...
...that we are addressing the same issues. That's really the key right now." That is Rice's diplo-speak for her hopes of guiding Israeli and Palestinian leaders along parallel tracks to see a common "political horizon," to use one of her favorite phrases. The problem is that direct talks cannot happen so long as Israel refuses to deal with the Hamas faction of the newly formed Palestinian unity, which still does not explicitly recognize Israel's right to exist...
...over its own initiatives and budget. For example, the Harvard College Fund, to which many Harvard College graduates contribute annually with the hope to improving undergraduate life, is actually controlled by the Dean of FAS and often fails to be disbursed in a way that affects undergraduates in any direct way. We hope that serious adjustments can be made in the structural relations of FAS and the College such that the College can set its own priorities and have more freedom to improve undergraduate life. Funds donated in the name of undergraduates should actually reach them...