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Facing a young Cornell team of five freshman and one sophomore, Harvard had to exert more effort than it anticipated. Despite the surprising strong effort of the Big Red, the Crimson still managed to control the match...
...proposes banning soft money contributions from individuals, which he has said exert a corrupt influence on the political process. McCain supports so-called "paycheck protection," which could require unions and corporations to obtain their employees' consent before using company money for political purposes...
Then again, maybe not. Since when do American territories exert influence in Presidential nominations? If we rebelled against England in 1776 for taxation without representation, since when do we offer representation without taxation? You are telling us that these people live in their various paradises without even the speed bump of federal taxes? Sign us up. At least we can comfort ourselves that they don't get any say in the fall, when it matters--what will they, sitting on their beaches, say then...
...When movies are good, they have a vision. When movies are bad, usually they're directed by committee or by producers or by stars that are trying to exert vanity requirements over the project. And film is not a democracy. Film is a monarchy, and the director is king, and that's--in my opinion--that's the way it works. You can't have the prop guy going, "Well, I think you should...
...only a recommendation that any following U.S. President can disregard, because following presidents will not be bound by Friday's decision. The end of this five-year time period will coincide with the next presidential election. Conservative Americans who fervently defend U.S. military interests will be able to exert much more pressure than Puerto Ricans, since we are not a part of the U.S. electoral process. Indeed, the will of the Puerto Rican people, supported by a past Congress, has been ignored for the past 18 years. In 1981, Congress gave the Navy five years to find reasonable alternatives...