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Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Halberstam moved to Mississippi in order to cover the incipient civil rights movement and the desegregation of schools in the South...
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...Concerts. North Mississippi All-Stars. Toussaint and the China Band. Seeking Homer. What do they all have in common? They’re all bands that the UC and its poorly-run subsidiary, the Harvard Concert Commission, have brought to Harvard. What else do they have in common? The UC spent too much money on them and only a tiny proportion of the student body went to see them...
...requires 60 votes to overcome--what they cannot accomplish on a simple up-or-down vote, since Republicans have 55 Senate seats to their 44. Neutralizing the filibuster may sound like little more than a bit of parliamentary housekeeping, but, given the tactic's long tradition in the Senate, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott christened the move the "nuclear option." Frist ignited the fuse last week, bringing up the long-stalled nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Ostensibly, the fight is over a handful of long-blocked appellate court nominations...
...whose most vociferous political proponents are Democrats in Washington State eager to protect the company's Seattle-area jobs, EADS is building a base in the Republican-dominated South. Two weeks ago, it opened another plant in Alabama, a Republican state, and has hired a former top aide to Mississippi Republican Senator Trent Lott as an executive...