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...first time, is happy to have met a hero at the checkout. "I'm not much on Fianna Fáil, but Bertie is a grand chap. He's one of us." That sense of ownership is evident everywhere as members of the public, young and old, lean into the double-handed shake of the man they all call Bertie. Some pols "use security as an umbrella" to avoid contact with their electorates, says Ahern. "I'd go bonkers if I was stuck inside." Burnishing his everyman appeal is a gift for mangling sentences as thoroughly as President Bush...
...Pierre Moscovici, a Socialist Party heavyweight and vice-president of the European Parliament. While mainstream conservatives backing Sarkozy's tax-cutting, market-friendly economic polices may overlook his repeated pledges to help Le Pen voters "out of their ghetto" and into his camp, Moscovici warns that the hard-right lean will repel most people who supported Bayrou. "Sarkozy reminds me of Berlusconi," Moscovici comments. "The Italian right forgave him every excess, the Italian center fled...
...even departing from the freshman dining hall is enough of an ordeal. Sundquist’s tray hits the revolving belt in front of the dishwashing depot, and within seconds, its owner has swung one khaki-sheathed leg onto the contraption so that he can lean over and converse with the staff. A few words with Advising Fortnight-hawkers, some hand-slaps in the breezeway, and he’s finally out. The bulk of the day’s meetings are still ahead.‘REAL ISSUES’First up is Maryellen ‘Mel?...
...just looking forward to our next race and getting faster.” Rasmussen agreed, saying that Saturday’s performances showed that the Crimson boats were “rowing competitively up there with the best.” “We’re lean, we’re mean, we’ve got a few seconds to glean, and in the next few races, we’re really going to do something worth seeing,” he said. —Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...college need not be complicit in the purported crimes of its students. Regardless of pressure from the RIAA, it is not the task of a university to patrol cyberspace in search of wrongdoing. The music industry has been able to investigate (and litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take up the helm of prosecution on this count. While it is regrettable that piracy threatens the livelihood of musicians around the world, the RIAA has adopted the wrong response strategy to this phenomenon. Litigation may persist, but the problem of lost revenues will never...