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...addition to standard weekly contests in soccer, basketball, and Frisbee, the activities office has offered a number of weekend tournaments that do not pit Houses and dorms against one another, but instead favor open entry, allowing students to form teams across residences. The result has been a greater focus on individual achievement, with high schoolers and college folk alike striving not for Canaday or Kirkland pride, but rather for personal bragging rights on Harvard’s hallowed battlegrounds of grass, wood, and asphalt...
...residents chow down on McDonald’s instead...
Interestingly, the arduous work of getting traditional adversaries on the abortion issue to endorse the Ryan-DeLauro effort had relatively little to do with concerns about the substance of specific provisions. Instead, the bill's backers found they needed to give people on both sides time to learn to let down their guard a little after decades of skirmishes. "We had to reach a level of trust," says DeLauro. "Because so often this issue has been one about which there was nothing other than trying to score political points...
...abortion reduction, and he is reportedly aiming to make an announcement about those efforts in August. The White House has conducted meetings with a broad array of pro-life and pro-choice advocates. But getting opponents to sit down and talk about abortion is only the first step. So instead of reinventing the wheel, Obama should use the newly introduced House bill as the model, DeLauro says, adding, "We've already done all the work here...
...renewed shakedown has led many Iranians to be subversive in more discreet ways. Instead of joining street protests, they try to short the electrical grids by turning on all household appliances en masse; they boycott products advertised on state TV; and they increasingly turn to Twitter, blogs, Facebook, e-mail-distribution lists and underground newspapers to bring attention to the regime's brutal tactics. (Read "Which State Security Branch Rules Tehran's Streets...