Word: n
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...INAUGURATED. Felipe Calderón, 44, as President of Mexico; after winning a July election by a margin of 0.56% over leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has refused to concede; in Mexico City. An hour before the conservative Calderón took his oath in the congressional chamber, legislators allied with López Obrador--who has set up a parallel government--brawled with Calderón partisans and barricaded doors in an attempt to delay the ceremony. In his inaugural address, Calderón called for unity, saying, "To those who voted for others, I will not ignore your causes...
...Democrats take control of the House in January. A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rangel, 76, spoke to TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about his ongoing push for a military draft, whether he would back Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama for President and the controversy over the N word...
...hear about Michael Richards' comments, in which he repeatedly used the N word? Is that the comedian? Yes. So many of these comedians are obscene that I would have no idea whether they were serious or it was part of their act. It was a terrible insult to African Americans, but so many things on TV are so insulting...
...says, later adding in an e-mail that he is critical of the Israeli military “only because I hold us to higher standards than anyone else.â€And while many Americans balk at the proposal by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., to reinstitute a draft, Harman says Israeli youths often consider military service a “rite of passage.â€Efi E. Massasa ’09, who also spent three years in the IDF, says that the service is at “the core of Israeli citizenship...
More than a year before Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans vote on their 2008 presidential pick, Governor Mitt Romney has already won the Ec 10 primary. N. Gregory Mankiw, the Beren professor of economics who heads Harvard’s introductory course on the subject, has joined Romney’s Commonwealth Political Action Committee, which is likely to serve as a launchpad for the outgoing governor’s White House...