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...greater today than it has been in at least a decade and a half. Witness the growth of the Tea Party movement, a diffuse conglomeration of forces that have coalesced around nothing so much as a shared hostility toward Washington. Or the Feb. 15 announcement by Indiana Senator Evan Bayh - a man who almost made it onto three presidential tickets - that he would not stand for re-election because "Congress is not operating as it should" and "even in a time of enormous challenge, the people's business is not getting done." (See pictures of Tea Party protests...
...Florida. In Arizona, the movement is targeting Senator John McCain, whose willingness to compromise on issues like immigration makes him vulnerable to former Representative J.D. Hayworth in the primary. Indiana Republican Dan Coats, a former Senator, is itching to get his job back after the retirement of Democrat Evan Bayh. But he too hears rumblings on his right. It is the sound of Tea Partyism on the march...
...Staff writer Evan T.R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...These days, Republicans have even less political incentive to cooperate with the President. Shattered after the 2008 election, the party nevertheless has found a shortcut back to power - and, especially in the wake of Senator Evan Bayh's planned retirement, has a chance to win control of Congress in 2010 - by positioning itself as Obama's automatic resistance. When its policy stances match those of the President (the surge in Afghanistan, a deficit-reduction commission), it has registered its support through clenched teeth and muted statements - or even abandoned its previous postures - lest it build up Obama...
Lewis' sentiments were shared by computer science concentrator and CS 51 TF Evan R. Czaplicki '12 who explained that "every coder has a specific style. it would be suspicious if two students turned in exactly the same code for a given assignment." He added that the probability that a cheating programmer would be caught in a course such as CS51 is high, as problem sets are generally graded...