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...knew that trekking to a concentration advising event with promises of free advice and Noch's pizza would also key us into the latest gossip in the Econ department...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Econ Dept—Still Hiring, Sort of... | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...become a little less prevalent, say researchers who have discovered antibodies that may eventually be the key to developing a broadspectrum vaccine for the rapidly mutating...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Universal Vaccine Against Flu Viable | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, a key test for Steele will be how he manages to build a coalition of various wings of the Republican Party. His ascension was greeted harshly in more conservative wings of the party, particularly among white conservatives in the rural south who've long held dominance over the party. Former GOP Louisiana congressman and "white separatist" David Duke, for instance, posted an article on his website deriding Steele with the headline, "To Hell with the Republican Party!" On Friday, Steele said, "My job is to win elections. One of the strengths of our party is we have a diversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Michael Steele Broaden the Grand Old Party? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...Lincoln, America's first Republican President. It was remarkable, considering that Illinois rarely receives serious attention from national Republicans. George H.W. Bush was the last Republican presidential candidate to carry Illinois, in 1988. In recent years, Illinois' Republican Party has been so neutered that, in 2004, it imported Alan Keyes from Maryland to compete against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat. So Steele's visit demonstrates a key aspect of his strategy for reviving the party: planting the party's flag in states beyond the South long ago dismissed by the GOP, while maintaining strongholds like DuPage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Michael Steele Broaden the Grand Old Party? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...powerful, attacking families and driving them out, then looting their abandoned homes. As Swat's notables and lawmakers fled, young, unemployed men suddenly found status as local commanders with large salaries from Fazlullah's mysteriously deep pockets. (Conspiracy theories abound as to the source of his largesse.) But the key to his success, say local observers, was Fazlullah's ability to exploit local resentment at the failings of Pakistan's venal judicial system, in which complainants routinely found justice deferred or denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Pakistan Regain Control of Swat from the Taliban? | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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