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...Michigan Sen. Carl Levin and Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed certainly hope so. In this week's congressional tug-of-war over Iraq policy, their amendment to the defense spending bill - the latest version of one they've introduced four times before - has the best chance of ultimately winning the 60 votes required to give it a fuller Senate consideration. Finding 60 votes this time around is unlikely. But it is steadily gaining support...
...Levin-Reed, which reached the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, is the most carefully engineered measure designed by Democrats to limit the scope of the war. It directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq and alter the remaining forces' mission to three smaller roles: force protection, training of Iraqi forces and counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda...
...Levin-Reed so far has been a triumph of hope over experience. That's because the Senate has voted on Levin-Reed four times in the last 16 months. In June 2006, a slightly different measure by the same name attracted 39 votes. But in March 2007, support jumped to 48 votes; in April of this year, the measure garnered the support of 51 Senators; in July, 52 Senators moved behind the measure...
...Levin and Reed believe that with the return of Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, their measure will start with a baseline of 53 Senators, assuming no one changes his or her mind, as Virginia Senator John Warner did earlier this week on Jim Webb's proposal to limit the length of troop deployments overseas...
...century. Last school year, a group of students revived the club with the help of head coach Crocker Snow Jr. ’61. Harvard’s men’s team included two alumni and two undergraduates: Nicholas B. Snow ’09 and Alex R. Levin ’08. Three female undergraduates—L. Caroleene Hardee ’09, Meera E. Atreya ’09, and Stephanie A. Hon ’09—made up the women’s team. The undergraduates on the women’s team...