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...villages and toward the cities is also blurring the distinction between rural and urban voters. B.D. Raghu, 26, commutes two hours by train, each way, to Bangalore from his home in Mandya, a village 62 miles (100 km) away. He has been doing this every day for eight years, working as a ticket collector in a parking lot, as a warden in a youth hostel, then as a counter clerk in a juice bar and now as the office manager for a local advocacy group, where he earns about $100 a month. "When I first came, I was scared," Raghu...
...joined it under Reagan's big tent," new Democrat Arlen Specter lamented on Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. Also on Sunday, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, one of two remaining Northeastern GOP moderates in Congress, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that Specter's loss, eight years after the defection of Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords, shows how little the party has heeded the warning signs. "There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a regional party," Snowe wrote. "Ideological purity...
...Eight new cases of influenza linked to the Harvard Dental School have been deemed by local and state health officials “probable” infections of H1N1 “swine flu,” according to an announcement made by the Boston Public Health Commission at a press conference Friday afternoon. The announcement raises the total number of possible cases in the Boston area to nine, adding to the original diagnosis of a Dental School student that was announced last week. Of those nine, two cases tested as Type A influenza accompanied by “acute...
...heavyweight team, all four varsity boats pulled out solid wins, with each crew beating its competition by over 11 seconds to keep possession of the Beanpot trophy and team banner for the third consecutive year. In the last home race of the season, the No. 16 varsity eight started the day off, jumping to an early lead against Northeastern, Boston University, Columbia, Boston College and MIT. The boats would finish in that order, with Radcliffe claiming an 11.5-second lead over second place Northeastern, easily winning the Rowlands Cup for the 11th straight year. “I think...
...Taliban also know how to take advantage of Western media outlets. For instance, on Aug. 18, the Taliban ambushed a French patrol about 30 miles from the Afghan capital, an attack that left 10 soldiers dead. Several weeks later, militants involved in the attack appeared in a glossy, eight-page magazine spread in Paris-Match, a leading French newsweekly, flaunting the weapons, uniforms and personal effects of the dead soldiers. Back in France, support for the war dropped to a new low. Defense Minister Herve Morin noted that the Taliban "understood that public opinion is probably the Achilles' heel...