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...attract new allies and keep current members of his fractious coalition government onside. Take the anti-immigrant Northern League, which got less than 4% of the vote in 2001 parliamentary elections. The League's bombastic founder, Umberto Bossi, who's just returned to the fray a year after suffering a stroke, pulled his top lieutenant from his post as Reform Minister to protest what he sees as the government's lukewarm commitment to giving more autonomy to Italy's regions. Berlusconi quickly vowed that regionalization reforms would go ahead. Since returning to office in 2001, Berlusconi has been a master...
While the events at Columbia have not been the centerpiece of conversation at Harvard in recent months, the debate has resonated in Cambridge. Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz joined the fray last month as one of MEALAC’s most vocal critics. The David Project—a Boston-based Zionist advocacy group—has also been at the heart of the controversy for producing “Columbia Unbecoming...
...reached a mutual agreement with arena representatives to “make something fun” out of the situation by bringing Red Sox fans from his Harvard days—the targets of his “ultimate private joke”—into the fray...
...civilians wave at the attackers, who continue to blast away. The convoy drives on, past the fray. The rear humvee, its driver obviously bored with the proceedings, wanders off the road to chase...
...Emperor Akihito joined the fray in a written statement issued on his 71st birthday on Dec. 23. The Emperor wrote of the crown prince's complaints: "... there are still some things that I have not fully understood yet." As for the inherent nature of official duties, Akihito requested that the future Emperor specifically indicate what he has in mind, "or at least indicate a direction for them, and in so doing gain the cooperation of those around him." Amid this extraordinary show of public bickering, the government last month announced its decision to create an advisory board to begin considering...