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...notes on the importance of The Partisan Review, and I need to respond to this IM from my boyfriend asking about our dinner plans—and oh, I have to e-mail the teaching fellow sitting across from me to ask for an extension on the take-home midterm. And class is over, I have a social life and an overdue paper to attend to, and sectional strife in the Middle East is the last thing on my mind until the next time I zone out in class...
...PARTING THE RED SEA Going into last fall's midterm elections, Vanderslice decided that the party was just not going to move quickly or boldly enough, and she set up shop on her own. She formed Common Good Strategies in July 2005 and recruited Price's staffer Eric Sapp, who has degrees from Duke in policy and divinity, as a partner in October. It was the first Democratic-tilted, faith-based political-consulting firm. They acted as matchmakers between candidates and receptive clergy and helped candidates navigate the Christian media markets and develop a message that crossed party and religious...
...findings of the study bode well for Democrats entering the run-up to the 2008 election. Though independents were divided between John Kerry and George W. Bush in the 2004 election, they proved invaluable in helping Democrats win both the House and the Senate in the 2006 midterm election...
...When we were working on the calendar stuff, I know that he put off so many things,” Sundquist says. “He put off two papers that were already late and a midterm the next day that he hadn’t studied for while were trying to get the research together for the calendar report...
...bureaucratic roadblock, as demonstrated by its repeated refusal to grant Core exemptions to students who have taken departmental courses equivalent to—or harder than—Core classes. The result has been that adherence to bizarre rules, such as the stipulation that Core classes must have a midterm and a final, has taken priority over a class’s relevance and quality. The prestige and educational value that the Core was supposed to guarantee has been forgotten, and undergraduate education has suffered, turning into a curriculum that instead trains students for little more than cocktail party conversations.The...