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...table is full of supporters, only a fraction of the busloads that will arrive tomorrow. Sammy Redd struggles to identify each one: Leizer’s family; their pastor and his wife; Rupak Bhattacharya ’05, Redd’s boyfriend; Amanda Redd’s high school friends; assorted cousins...
...first miscalculation was based on another faulty assumption--that Iraqi troops would stick around to surrender. As it turned out, only a tiny fraction of Iraq's military surrendered to coalition forces. The majority simply melted away. But the plan to use the few remaining Iraqi troops for peacekeeping was scrapped, and the way it was done boomeranged on the occupying authorities. Soon after arriving in Iraq, Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), ordered Iraq's military dissolved. He argued that this was merely a symbolic act, but it infuriated Iraqi troops who had put up little...
...McClintock gaining, which is not exactly an inducement for Schwarzenegger's chief Republican rival to bow out and allow the party to unify behind the movie star. McClintock tells TIME there is "no scenario" in which he would get out and that if Schwarzenegger's campaign "spent a fraction of the time it has devoted trying to get me out of the race on proposing solutions to California's problems, it would be in much better shape." And now Schwarzenegger has something new to worry about: at the G.O.P. state convention in Los Angeles last Saturday, conservatives showed previews...
Ultimately, it is unfortunate that several Democratic candidates are perpetuating the caricature of Dean as an out-of-touch Northeastern liberal Democrat. Dean’s ability to appeal to a large fraction of the electorate...
...which is ideal for Harvard due to our high-capacity Ethernet network. With an Ethernet connection already in every student’s room, “Sex and The City” and “The Sopranos” can be piped to our desktops at a fraction of the cost of traditional installation...