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...time to familiarize themselves with the document are also the sort who support it - 75% of the respondents who knew its contents said they would vote for it. Only 22% of those who had never heard of it are in favor. In France, the yes score in polls has fallen from 69% to 61% over the past four months. Treaty supporters across the political spectrum believe they're losing support because voters wrongly think the referendum is linked to Turkish E.U. membership (widely opposed in France) or officially surrenders social protections to the free market (as some politicians complain). Others...
...trademark quality of the Handel and Haydn Society is their anachronism. The group strives to be as historically accurate as possible, using performance techniques that were common hundreds of years ago, but have fallen out of practice today...
...vote” drives. If this conversation takes place on such political terms, Summers will have won by default—bringing Washington politics to a university that has thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual power has fallen to those who never liked the notion of a university—who have long argued that the professorship is a cushy position that involves no work (as Summers implicitly did in challenging Cornel West a few years...
...duty in wartime. But it is also true that the military has become more efficient at preventing desertions: since 2001, unit commanders, instead of one central authority, have had responsibility for identifying potential deserters and reintegrating those who have gone AWOL. Even as the number of desertions has fallen, the number of prosecutions, while still tiny, has edged up, from 153 in fiscal year 2002 to 171 and 176 in the past two years. Whereas offenders once had a good chance of getting a slap on the wrist and a dishonorable discharge, they now must consider the well-publicized case...
...LAST TUESDAY, RETIRED General Colin Powell was dutifully signing books at a Wal-Mart in suburban Fort Worth when he noticed that the line of eager buyers appeared distracted. He was nonplussed, like a sergeant whose troops had fallen out without an order to do so. For a long moment in that cavernous mall in Texas, Powell seemed to be the only person in America who was unaware of what was happening in a courtroom in Los Angeles...