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...month after President Obama said he would scrap his predecessor's plans to place a U.S. missile-defense shield in Poland, Vice President Joe Biden announced that the East European ally would, in fact, host interceptors in a revamped version of the system. Obama's decision to remove Poland from the antiballistic-missile program had irked Warsaw, which viewed the deal as providing integral protection against potential long-range attacks...
...decided that for one week I would buy only stuff that was on sale. My first mistake was getting my lovely wife Cassandra to join me. The speed with which she both agreed and went to her computer should have clued me in to the fact that while I envisioned coupon-clipping and circular-reading, she saw the doors swing open to a World Wide Web of crap. Did you know there's an amber teething necklace that the baby doesn't actually put in his mouth but that works by releasing soothing warmth? And would you believe that...
...repugnance of a crime escalates due to the intangible, unquantifiable impact that it has upon those to whom the perpetrator did nothing. Proponents of hate-crimes legislation posit that crimes committed against individuals due to their gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation are particularly heinous due to the fact that they intimidate and offend all members of those groups. But all crimes, by their very nature, intimidate and offend more than just the victims, for crimes are affronts to society as a whole. Does a burglar not intimidate and offend all residents of the neighborhood in which his victims dwell...
...could’ve gone either way,” was how senior goaltender Christina Kessler described the Harvard’s women’s ice hockey games against Colgate (1-6-1, 0-1-1 ECAC) and Cornell (2-2, 2-0 ECAC) this weekend. In fact, it went both ways, as the Crimson (1-1, 1-1 ECAC) lost to the Big Red, 4-3, on Saturday after defeating the Raiders, 2-1, on Friday...
...fact, first-time challenger Leland Cheung—a student at both Harvard Kennedy School and the MIT Sloan School of Management—said that his campaign focuses on issues highly relevant to students, such as improving public safety and enhancing dialogue between the city and universities...