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...feeling of necessity over the Harvard-to-New York relocation can manifest itself for any number of reasons. Some students simply like New York and want to live there, and some favor the city because of the concentration of jobs in the metropolis. Others say that their desire to move to New York stems from an inability to see themselves elsewhere: They’ve always assumed they would live in New York, and so they limit their searches for jobs and graduate schools to the city in their crystal ball. But that sort of logic?...
...Africans continue to suffer from the pandemic—is that those who would arraign the Pope for callous disregard for reality are in fact the ones moralizing in ignorance of the data. Except that they have abandoned a traditional regard for moral virtue and absolute truth in favor of a vain and vacuous worship of freedom...
...secretary of state to issue a certificate (granting formal victory) until all lawsuits have run their course. Senator Coleman has filed several lawsuits, the most recent of which actually resulted in increasing Franken’s lead to 315 votes. Now that the lower court has declared in favor of Franken, Coleman is going to the state Supreme Court, and if that fails, he may continue to the federal court system...
...less about Islamist appeal in these countries, but more about their ability to mobilize a narrow constituency to go over the threshold to win in an area,” said Masoud. “Some scholars have thought that Islam influences people to vote [in favor of Islamist parties], but I think the more proximate cause is micro level variables on the ground in these elections...
...funding and alcohol consumption at student group parties, which led some students to express discontent about the College’s stance on underage drinking, Though the panel engaged in an hour-long dialogue regarding current problems and possible solutions, some spectators noted that the overall tone seemed to favor one side of the debate. “I thought it was a little bit more represented by the side that endorses lowering the drinking age,” said audience member Nicholas E. Souder ’09. “But I thought that their answers were also...