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...Lebanon (and for it's own reputation) is to stay out of internal Lebanese politics. "The U.S. should support Lebanon, not one particular group in Lebanon," he said. U.S. involvement only encourages Iranian and Syrian involvement, and Lebanon will once again move closer to crisis. "Things take on a momentum that is hard to stop," he warned...
...genteel discussion, in which the Dems questioned how they could better serve the BGLTSA community—perhaps the Dems’ cubicle in Hilles has a blue phone to Nancy Pelosi’s office?—a consensus emerged: Gay marriage has gained unstoppable momentum. America is coming around, it seemed. A majority of the country doesn’t even believe that gay marriage should be constitutionally banned, one student reported. Democrats, as the title of the event foreshadowed, should move beyond gay marriage to improving hate crime legislation and familiarizing themselves with the transgender community...
...Republicans—especially Republican pollsters—are not delusional when they get excited over this kind of news. They know that this issue energizes the Republican base. Countless articles, ranging from The New York Times to Republican blogs, have speculated that this court decision could change the momentum of Democratic Senate candidates Jim Webb in Virginia and Harold Ford Jr. in Tennessee, as well as House candidates throughout the contested Midwest...
...ending the first frame 3-2. The advantage continued to teeter back and forth, with Harvard maintaining a slight one-goal lead through halftime. At 7:11 in the third frame, the Engineers finally landed the equalizer in its first shot of the period. The Crimson cut the MIT momentum short when it mustered a 4-0 run in the third period. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
...just can’t let up the gas...this is just our first chance,” she said. “I like what I saw. We are still trying to figure it out. We have so much internal competition right now and that is driving our momentum. You can’t ask somebody who is trying to stay on a dress list to let up. We have to play at a high pace all the time and let these kids experiment.”With two of the top teams in the ECAC on the horizon...