Word: mapped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just as the financial crisis has lifted Barack Obama and Joe Biden, it is boosting the prospects of the party's House and Senate candidates across the map. "There are states where we never thought we had a chance that we now do--like Georgia," says Senator Charles Schumer, the New Yorker who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Indeed, though Georgia incumbent Saxby Chambliss was sitting on an 18-point lead in September over former state representative Jim Martin, the latest polls have Martin pulling within 3 points of the incumbent. Four other GOP Senators--Elizabeth Dole of North...
Best part about Harvard: The rare map collection in Widener...
...There is no need to look at a map to realize how far away Russia and Venezuela are from one another. Yet in these globalized times, they are bound together by their opposition to and fear of the United States. That may be the reason why there were so many photographers and journalists at Russian President Dimitry Medvedev’s recent meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Moscow, which was the second such negotiation in the last two months. After the meeting and in a world of frozen credit lines, it was announced that Russia would lend Venezuela...
...colleagues specializing in myths from different parts of the world.Its introduction would be an appropriate one for this imaginative community.“Our students are a mirror image of our faculty,” Mitchell said. “They basically study everything all around the map.—Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu...
...softball jabbing of an administration that most liberal humorists have all but canonized already. Folks like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, who have flourished under the current administration, now find themselves in a perplexing and significantly un-funny dilemma: a risky change or more of the same.Luckily, after the map has been rent all asunder and our nation bleeds red and blue again, we’ll still be able to look toward the horizon for another installment from Sarah Vowell. Vowell, a humorist and contributing editor for public radio’s “This American Life...