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...back up to orange and the scarring images of the school siege in Beslan, Russia, settled into the suburban psyche. In recent presidential elections women have leaned Democratic by at least 8 percentage points, and after his Boston convention, they favored Kerry by 14. But in recent weeks that margin has vanished, and some polls have shown Bush pulling ahead even among women. So the notion that fear of terrorism was driving normally Democratic women into the Bush camp provided the theorists with a story line and led the Kerry camp to seek out allies like the 9/11 widows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...becoming law. However, rumors that H.R. 163 might pass and lead to the draft’s reinstatement were so common that the House Republican leadership—which strongly opposes a draft—moved to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 163, just to show the vast margin by which it would fail...

Author: By Josh A Barro, | Title: The Impending Draft? | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

Harvard claimed a four-point lead, 22-18, after BC’s Verena Rost misfired on a set directly out of an Eagle timeout. The Crimson maintained that margin until BC put together a 5-0 run to take a 26-25 lead. Harvard bounced right back to take three out of the next four points and four of six for a 29-28 advantage, earning its first game point. The Crimson seemed to have the game wrapped up on the next point, as a bad Eagle pass forced BC just to lob the ball across...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Can’t Keep Pace With BC, Loses 3-1 | 10/6/2004 | See Source »

...environment for which it was created. This setting gives an added richness to many of the pieces. In one Okyo painting of a waterfall, the water flows from the top right of one wall to the bottom left. But the viewer can't help noticing that the bottom left margin of the painting, where the water finally runs still, aligns perfectly with the waterline of a pond just across the walkway outside, suggesting the painting and the man-made pond form an unbroken continuum. Says Takubo: "By preserving things in the places they were created, you can feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art, Liberated | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

Having supported the president by a slim margin in 2000, New Hampshire, with its four electoral votes, has once again emerged as a contested state in this year’s election, attracting the concerted efforts of both major campaigns...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bay State Target of Bush’s Ridicule | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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