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...evidence, Campante cited a recent study co-authored by Harvard assistant sociology professor Neil Gross, which found that 9.2 percent of academics nationwide considered themselves conservatives, compared to roughly 44 percent who self-idenitified as liberal. Campante added that Democrats have been out-fundraising Republicans by a huge margin in this election, breaking with recent trends...
...ignoring Coalition troops’ direct hand in Iraqi deaths (according to the Lancet study, 56 percent of all cases where a perpetrator was known, amounting to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis), not to mention their role in fomenting Iraq’s sectarian bloodshed, this claim whitewashes the gross illegality of their presence. In the words of the Nuremberg Tribunal, preemptive aggression of this sort constitutes the “supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Where?...
...Romney camp's embrace of sports metaphors may have signaled a realization that they need to lower their own - and observers' - bar for success. Doug Gross, Romney's Iowa chairman, took the expectations game even further, recalling a past candidate who was "five states in before he won his first primary," and then went on to win the presidency. Romney accepted the silver with cool grace, but one wonders how well he would receive being compared to perennial GOP punching bag, Bill Clinton...
...Gross for more than 1.8million tickets for the Police reunion-concert series, making it 2007's top-selling tour. Second and third place went to Genesis' Turn It On Again tour, at $129million, and Justin Timberlake's FutureSex LoveShow, at $126.8million...
North American gross concert dollars in 2007, down 10.2% from a record-setting 2006. With 51million concertgoers, attendance fell 19.2% from the previous year...