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...undertake a similar transformation, rebuilding itself from the ground up. Ozawa needs to strengthen the party media machine, assemble large and vocal grassroots support organizations and nurture third-party advocacy programs that reinforce the DPJ's own programs and policies...
...cadre of dancers in turn-of-the-century workers’ garb cooperated to execute a series of increasingly demanding contortions—which, at times, strained their ability to maintain form and move fluidly—before the “workers” ultimately collapsed onto the ground as if dead. The fallen workers were then “kicked” back to life by Annelisa H. Pedersen ’06 so that they might resume their labors by a soloist in a fuchsia bowler and iridescent business suit.Julia K. Lindpaintner...
James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit publication America who has written critically about Opus, offers a middle ground between Dale Carnegie and the octopus: "Opus Dei provides members with an overarching spirituality for their life," he suggests. "It's an ongoing relationship that helps buttress and further shape the thought of people who are already conservative Catholics. That's a powerful symbiosis, and there's a personal connection between members, whether they're housewives or politicians. It's not an evil empire, but that doesn't mean there aren't serious issues that need to be addressed...
After 43 years, Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's elusive capo dei capi, the boss of bosses, was run to ground just a mile west of the town of his birth, Corleone, a place made famous by the fictional protagonists in Mario Puzo's saga The Godfather. Provenzano had run the enormous La Cosa Nostra crime organization by way of messages on slips of paper, called pizzini, smuggled out from his hiding places over the years. But Cortese finally found him by following peripatetic packages of clean laundry from the home of Provenzano's wife in Corleone. Each delivery...
...Christine Casaceli, with only 80 seconds remaining, evened the scoreboard going into halftime. As the game returned from break, the Tigers took control of the entire second frame. In the final 30 minutes of the game, Princeton handily outshot Harvard 20-13, controlled the majority of ground balls (13-7), and managed to turnover the ball fewer times (9-12). The latter statistic may be attributed not only to strong play by the Tigers, but also to mental errors by the Crimson. “We can be successful,” said sophomore Caroline Simmons in an earlier interview...