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Frigid temperatures, college-football bowl games, post-New Year's Eve lethargy--the Iowa caucuses have a lot going against them this election cycle. Still, despite months of electoral-calendar one-upmanship, the Hawkeye State held onto its status as the nation's first presidential matchup by moving its caucuses from Jan. 14 to Jan. 3. The Iowa contests first achieved national prominence in 1972 and '76. Since then, they have provided momentum to many a trailing candidate while halting the progress of more than a few presumed front runners...
...modern times, fires break out roughly two times every decade at the White House. The last real bonfire was way back in 1929 on Christmas Eve, when the West Wing was gutted by a massive conflagration. President Herbert Hoover had to leave his Christmas party to oversee the removal of important papers from the Oval Office. (But the Marine Band played on, and the First lady kept the party going.) The doozy, of course, was in 1814, when the invading Brits set the White House on fire. (Dolley Madison had to smuggle out the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George...
...much more concerned if they were monitoring my Facebook activity rather than what I put on Facebook,” Eve H. Bryggman ’10 said. “The image I put out there is what I want to present...
...race for the leadership of South Africa reached a fever pitch on Saturday, the eve of a decisive ruling party conference, as state investigators filed revised allegations of corruption against the leading contender...
...Eden”Perhaps ironically, “Children of Eden,” a musical loosely based on the book of Genesis, is being co-directed by a Christian and an atheist.Stephen Schwartz’s two-act musical, which focuses on the stories of Adam and Eve as well as Noah and the Flood, celebrates the unity of mankind and human experience and will run in the New College Theatre from Jan. 7-12. “The musical is fresh, fun, and glitzy—along the lines of ‘Wicked...