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...largest parties from the ruling coalition into the newly christened Democratic Party, headed by Rome's popular mayor Walter Veltroni. But hope for any such similar merger on the center-right was quickly squashed by Berlusconi's purported allies. Leader of the second-largest opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version of Margaret Thatcher (and pre-cursor to Nicolas Sarkozy): a free market reformer ready to shake up the status...
...Hahn said. “We just tried to play well enough to get ourselves in the position to play in the postseason, and all of us are dying to play in that first game.”NCAA seedings will be announced Monday evening by a selection committee composed of representatives from eight different regions of the country.“This game is a huge confidence-booster going into the tournament,” Hoff said. “We have a very talented team, and we know we can play with any team in the nation?...
...leading foreign diplomats, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, has visited Beirut as part of an intense diplomatic effort to bridge the divide between both parties. France has spearheaded those efforts and, on Monday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was in Beirut for another attempt to strike a deal. But his efforts appeared to be in vain. A visibly frustrated Kouchner blamed unnamed parties for derailing the negotiations. "Everybody was agreed [on the process]. Everybody said they had agreed. Now I'm amazed, France is amazed, that something is stuck, something is blocked, something is derailed, and I would...
There are lots of surprises, actually, when you look at Thanksgiving Day Internet activity. Contrary to industry buzz, the busiest day for online shopping, in terms of market-share of site visits, isn't Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) or even Cyber Monday (the following Monday). For the past four years, it's been Thanksgiving Day itself - I need a catchy phrase, like Brown Thursday or perhaps Cyburkey Day - when we rush to our computers to surf the retail sites, perhaps to kill time while the bird is roasting or to start our holiday buying research. Hitwise data reveals...
...prevent the construction of an athletic center and the subsequent felling of 26 trees. Last Sunday, one of the protestors, Nathaniel Hill, 24, injured himself falling from one of the trees while trying to climb down to meet his father. At Columbia University, hunger strikers met with university officials Monday, but failed to see any real changes after a week of protest. The protesters want Columbia to diversify its Core Curriculum and improve ethnic studies and multicultural resources, according to a report by the Columbia Spectator. Finally, starting today, students at UMass-Amherst plan to stage a two-day strike...