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...doing so. Those protestors should have remained subdued until the question-and-answer session, at which time tough questions could be posed to the speaker. Furthermore, the protestors should not have used inflammatory rhetoric—such as shouting taunts like “Anti-Semite” in mid-speech—to obscure the real debate. Many onlookers at the speech repeatedly disrupted the lecture, heckling, shouting rebuttals, and holding florescent posters protesting Finkelstein’s stated views. One disturbance even forced him to stop speaking temporarily. Besides inhibiting free debate, the protestors’ actions also...
...game is no small undertaking for any family, but it is particularly time-consuming for those from hockey-barren locales like Gaithersburg, Md. In Boston, you can play a different team every week and never leave the state. Matters aren’t so simple in the Mid-Atlantic...
...namesake, jump-started Harvard’s effort to unite faculty from the Government and History departments and nearly a dozen centers of international study with a $15 million gift almost nine years ago.The complex, situated east of Memorial Hall on the border of University property and the mid-Cambridge neighborhood, is vastly different from the initial blueprints. Evolving plans and stiff community opposition drove up cost and time estimates.But on Friday, the focus was on Knafel, a managing partner at investment firm SRK Management. University President Lawrence H. Summers credited him with helping create a center to confront global...
...Even for Election Eve, Kilgore is unusually nervous. On Tuesday night, he will either be Governor-elect of the Old Dominion, one of the nation's most reliably Republican states, or poster boy for his national party's woes heading into next year's mid-term elections. "We can't even win in Virginia?" Republicans will be asking themselves if the former state attorney general does not pull it out in his neck-and-neck race against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Timothy M. Kaine. "The conventional wisdom will be that the Republicans are on the verge of a massive meltdown...
...where the overlooks offered spectacular pageants of fall foliage. Kaine, a lawyer and former Richmond Mayor, has tied himself to his running mate from 2001, Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat whose approval rating in the state is about 70 to 75 percent. Bush's is in the low- to mid-40s. So Kaine's communications director, Mo Elleithee, can slyly say that the Democrats welcome Bush to Virginia. "Do you want someone who's going to govern like Mark Warner, or someone who's going to govern like George Bush?" Elleithee says. "That sums up what this race...