Word: exitement
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...Moreover, most of us take pride in the Harvard community. Events such as the Game and house formals are meant to augment our community spirit—indeed, these are the few times we exit our self-obsessed lives to fight against a common enemy (Yale) or enjoy one another’s company. Relationships between those who rip off and those who get ripped off, as well as all of the witnesses, are certainly strained. The exchange can be compared to the sketchy guy on the dance floor who is taking advantage of an inebriated peer, except the victim...
...exit polls may have put centrist Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ahead of the hawkish former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a narrow margin (29 seats to 28), but Netanyahu may have good reason to count himself the victor. That's because Tuesday's vote confirmed a sharp swing to the right by Israel's electorate, with exit polls giving a combined right-wing bloc led by Netanyahu gaining 64 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, compared with only 56 for center-left bloc led by Livni. Late last year, Livni failed to form a majority coalition when she took...
...right will necessarily restrain her plans to pursue peace talks with the Palestinian Authority.) It will be up to Israel's president, Shimon Peres, to tap Livni or Netanyahu to form a government, based on his consultations with all parties. And, of course, these projections are based on exit polls - and some observers suggest that because those exit polls didn't include the votes of active-duty soldiers, the final result could still put Netanyahu over the top. (See pictures of the recent conflict in Gaza...
...right: She picked up most of her support at the expense of the Labor Party, the late Yitzhak Rabin's erstwhile "party of peace" that had once ruled unchallenged, but which on Tuesday could only manage a distant fourth place with only 12 Knesset seats, according to the exit polls. And while Livni's strength was a function of Labor voters moving to the right to back Kadima, Netanyahu lost support not to the center, but to the far-right nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party of Avigdor Lieberman, whose third-place finish with 16 seats, according to exit polls, made...
...President Obama says, 'Hey, we want you guys to accelerate your exit out of there.' There's a lot of anxiety associated with that statement here in Diyala," says Colonel Burt Thompson, the top U.S. military commander in the province. "The Kurds like us because we bring that stability. The Iraqis like us because we bring that stability ... I would not be surprised if you had a U.N. peacekeeping force here, in this part of the world, along the 140 line [dividing Iraqi Kurdistan from the rest of Iraq] as this thing matures and develops, to keep two belligerents away...