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...group’s travel funding. An organization known as “Americans in Italy for Obama” had promised to provide the group with plane tickets to Raleigh, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga. The Democrats received word on Saturday that David Gall, the member of the Italian group who was responsible for purchasing the campaigners’ plane tickets, had been injured in a car accident and would be unable to organize the trip. Dems president Jarret A. Zafran ’09 notified the 190 students registered for the November...
Harvard College Democrats President Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said he was contacted by Mark Gall, the president of the Italian organization, who told him that the group wanted to use their collected frequent flier miles to send Harvard Democrats to campaign for Obama...
...much for the fragile Quittner family budget; the canine orthopedic surgeon in town (who has the gall to display a gold statue of a dog in his office) said the repair would cost $4,000. "I remember when I was a boy, all the old dogs limped," I pointed out to my wife as we helped Otto hobble over to his chafing dish of designer kibble. "You'll have to wait a little bit longer for the iPhone," she said. "Be brave...
...boot. Pending admissions results, with Ben-Eze, Kenyi, and Wright, Amaker has already put together a better recruiting class than either Jones or Robinson has ever managed—some observers call it the best class in Ivy League history. According to Thamel, Scalise appeared to have the gall to call out the Ivy coaches on their anxiety. “Sounds like people are trying to protect the status quo for their programs,” he said.When Amaker was introduced as the coach of the Crimson last spring, he said that his goal was to win the school?...
...thus this key centrist ally of Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced that he, "with great courage," was withdrawing his party's support for the fragile majority, opening the door to a government crisis. "Che coraggio!?" an Italian might say with an apt double meaning: "What courage?" and "What gall!" Just 24 hours later, Mastella was already being publicly courted by Silvio Berlusconi, ever-present opposition chief, Prodi archnemesis and former - and would-be future - Prime Minister. Despite its air of overwrought soap opera, Italy's latest government crisis is almost anticlimactic. Prodi took office in 2006 with a razor-thin...