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...reporters worry that their legacy is moot; that the risks they and their colleagues took were minor and perhaps futile in the face of an overwhelming system of segregation. “It’s going to take until some of them are in the ground for things to change,” says Carr of the old segregationists...
...American vision of a perfectly composed body, it undoubtedly represents an improvement from the former commission, whose members were nominated by regional groups and often rubber-stamped by the U.N. Economic and Social Council. Moreover, it is presumptuous for the U.S. to attempt to take the moral high ground in a matter for which it has been rapidly losing credibility. The atrocities of Abu-Grahib and Guantanamo Bay preclude the U.S. from touting its own human rights standards as higher than those of others. A protest vote from a nation with such a questionable human rights record holds little sway...
More importantly, when you are stuck in Extendo there is no safe ground below you; if you aren’t cutting it there, the next step is to be released. And this is a possibility that every player is aware...
...party suites. Nearly every house has one. Some have several. These are the great social spaces of Harvard, with their huge common-rooms and accompanying perks, such as built-in bars and kegerators. Pforzheimer House has the Belltower. Currier House has the Ten-Man. Eliot House has Ground Zero. During the day, they are, ideally, informal hangout spaces for other house residents. By night, they host parties that have drawn sweaty undergrads from all over campus. Traditionally, lotteries distribute the party suites in a random fashion. But this had led to less-than-satisfactory arrangements. We can all think...
...shouldn't be that surprising that while his days as Italian Prime Minister are now almost certainly numbered, the charismatic media mogul may well emerge from the election, ostensibly won by center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force in a Parliament likely to be led by a weak, vulnerable prime minister. "Berlusconi is about to lose the governmental powers," said the center-left official...