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...Less than a minute later, DiSilvestro took the ball down the pool with no defenseman between him and the Connecticut College goalie...
...It’s ironic that I didn’t get mugged in four years at Penn, but did in less than two months at Harvard,” he said...
...Bush card, the we-got-left-a-mess card, the things-would-be-a-lot-worse-if-we-hadn't-acted card. But it's a good card! And it's true. In foreign affairs, the U.S. doesn't need to be loved, but it is nice to be less hated for a change, and Republican leaders have attacked Obama for every deviation (however slight) from the Bush approach - on torture, on Guantánamo, on Iraq, on talking to thugs and even shaking their hands...
...Sure, there was the Committee's official line, praising Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." But that really didn't shed much light on why the Oslo-based committee had bestowed the prestigious honor on a President who has been in office for less than a year. As Charlotte Lepri, a researcher with the Institute of International and Strategic Relations in Paris, described her friends' and colleagues' reaction to the news, "People said, 'Why? What did he do? The perception was the Nobel traditionally goes to people who have made accomplishments or considerable sacrifices...
Inspirational words have brought him a long way - including to the night in Grant Park less than a year ago when he asked that we "join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for 221 years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand." (See pictures of Obama in Grant Park...