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...Martinez Jr. ’11 said, who campaigned for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in a crisp suit and bright blue tie, despite the precipitation. HRC members were dropped off at the New Hampshire campaign headquarters for each of the six Republican presidential contenders, allowing every group to focus their efforts on one candidate. At the end of the day, students reconvened on the bus and compared the campaign paraphernalia they earned for their work on the trail. Those that canvassed for Rudy Guiliani boasted navy blue baseball caps and glossy buttons emblazoned with the candidate?...
...worn out,” she wrote. “I’d put academics on the back burner, and I wanted to reclaim what was left of my time at Harvard to focus on academics... it wasn’t hard to walk away from the UC, because I wanted my life back...
What kind of effect do you think martial law will have on terrorism? This will worsen the situation for terrorism. It will take the focus of the army and the police away from fighting terrorists. The militants and terrorists would have wanted nothing better than a fresh confrontation between the people and the government. And it is to prevent instability that my party and I have taken the decision to have political negotiations with General Musharraf in order to weaken the terrorists. But I am afraid his actions have played into the terrorist's hands. And he should remedy...
Currently, the funding arrives either in the form of military equipment or as virtually unfettered cash, for Musharraf's government to do with as it pleases. But the options are limited. The U.S. might get the Musharraf government to focus on counter-terrorism by cutting off money that would otherwise go toward paying down Pakistan's debt. However, that might just help Musharraf's military in silencing the opposition. Pakistan watchers are concerned that U.S. money is being diverted from counter-terrorism to anti-democratic crackdowns like this...
...production of a high-profile play. Director Anna C. Smith ’09 and producer Max A. Hume ’09 made clever use of low-tech stage equipment in the set, designed by Smith and Stephany Y.Z. Lin ’11, and kept the focus on the superb leading actors...