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...Chinese communist rule remains essentially repressive. Political opposition has been virtually crushed by arrests and long jail terms, and just to make sure, the Party rounded up its critics on the eve of the congress. Undesirables were pushed out of the cities through a system of "custody and repatriation." Internet denizens are closely supervised and occasionally arrested for what they post or read...
Romney waged a come-from-behind campaign in the past month, steadily closing the gap in the polls until the two candidates were locked in a statistical dead heat on the eve of the election...
...third-party candidate who could prove decisive in today’s dead-heat governor’s race spent the eve of Election Day in a Harvard classroom...
Wellstone didn't hear a word. As Senator-elect in his first month, Wellstone said of new colleague Jesse Helms, "I have detested him since I was 19." Then, on his first trip to the White House, on the eve of the Gulf War, Wellstone pelted President George H.W. Bush with antiwar arguments until Bush famously asked, "Who is this chickens...
...opposition. If we have not done all the research, we are afrai d to take a strong position. Yet many of us continue to postpone the background reading on important current issues; music rehearsals, tutoring commitments, lab work, and midterms always take precedence. We want to excel at eve rything. Many of us who are not experts on politics don’t have time to become experts, and eventually give up on taking a stand altogether...