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...bountiful seed potatoes they make often go unrecognized. Making the rounds, he jokes that a recent Smith College graduate looks pregnant. (In fairness, she has something lodged in the front pocket of her Young Republicans sweater.) He also notes that his handlers want to “lock me in a closet” for the remaining hours of the campaign...
...feel thatDavid Kuo, the formersecond-in-command in the President's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, is a smart man, but I am shocked that he bought into the promises of the current Administration lock, stock and barrel. This country is too religiously diverse for one religion to have an office in the White House. I am sorry for Kuo's feeling of personal betrayal, but what happened to the Evangelicals was just politics as usual...
...easy to unnerve the citizens of Fremont County. Prisons have been part of the landscape since before Colorado was a state--the Colorado Territorial prison dates back to the 19th century, and people are accustomed to the occasional disturbance or inmate escape. In Florence, most folks still don't lock their doors at night. Many have grown up listening for three short blasts from the fire whistle--a signal that a prisoner is loose in the valley. When that happens, some residents simply fill up their car with gas and leave the keys in the vehicle. "It's better than...
...cancelled at Harvard University.Wycliffe hoped to reform the Catholic Church. Wyclef, although he never intended to, helped spark a movement to reform another institution: the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC).By the end of the 2005 fall, many undergraduates had grown disenchanted with the HCC. After consecutive failures to lock down concerts with Snoop Dogg and Wyclef Jean, and a subsequent official inquiry by the Undergraduate Council (UC), there was a great deal of pressure on the HCC for internal reform.Now, a year after the Wyclef incident, the HCC says it’s made significant changes, and is preparing...
Waddah al-Anbari's ordeal began on an afternoon in Baghdad early this year while he was out buying a new cell phone. The neighborhood seemed safe; Waddah didn't bother to lock his car door. He was about to cross a narrow alley when a car screeched up, blocking his way. Two men got out, thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried...