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...overturn Proposition 8,” wrote Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council, in an e-mailed statement. “Placing the LGBT marriage fight within the context of other historical struggles to overturn similarly discriminatory marriage statutes is a critical part of that argument...
...dynasties and Emperors. For Hanoi, the matter has become especially sensitive as an array of dissidents - from Buddhist monks to activists protesting bauxite-mining - have taken up the cause of the archipelagoes, accusing the ruling Communist Party of selling out to China with every act of acquiescence. "The Vietnamese leadership is burning a candle on both ends," says Thayer. "They have to balance the reality of the situation against rising national sentiment and hope they don't get burned...
...before the Christmas Day incident, al-Awlaki was of such interest to the U.S. government that it tried to kill him. On Dec. 24, the Yemeni military, pressed by the CIA, fired rockets into his home south of Sana'a. Al-Awlaki was not the principal target - the top leadership of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was thought to be meeting there - but U.S. officials were hoping the strike would also take out the cleric. He wasn't home...
...nation's capital panicked about a possible upset, a Boston Globe poll found Coakley leading by 15 percentage points and one from the Mellman Group - albeit a Democratic-leaning organization - showed Coakley with a 14-point lead. But more important than the surveys themselves, the Massachusetts Democratic leadership seems to have been awakened by the closeness of the race - as, Coakley hopes, have been Democratic voters. (See Game Change: Why Harry Reid Said What He Said...
...neither of these somewhat scary scenarios for Harry Reid are likely. "We view the race with Coakley comfortably ahead," says a Senate Democratic leadership aide. "In this climate, we take nothing for granted. A win is a win, and we need to make sure she pulls this off." In fact, Democrats are now a little less worried about keeping the seat - if anything, the public policy poll did them a good turn, helping to energize otherwise lethargic Dem voters...