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...floor? While fun for a third-grader, it was not so much fun for the Harvard women’s water polo team. Playing in No. 11 Hartwick’s shallow Moyer Pool on Saturday, the Crimson (11-10, 0-1 CWPA North) faced defensive trouble in the new environment, eventually falling to the Hawks...
...gathering will produce more paper than progress, Administration officials concede. There will be the nonbinding communiqué, wherein the leaders will declare the dangers of nuclear proliferation. They will pledge to take new national and international measures to secure nuclear materials within four years. The summit will produce a "work plan" of steps that individual states will take to secure their nuclear materials; that too will be nonbinding. And individual countries will announce their own measures, to the extent that they want to do more...
...Obama Administration counters that this week's summit is just one part of a larger strategy. It coincides with the release of the Administration's new, less aggressive nuclear posture and the signing of a new nuclear-arms-reduction treaty with Russia; it will be followed next month by the 10-year review conference of the NPT at the U.N. "The President has put this complicated interrelated strategy together," says a senior Administration official. "We're beginning to execute on the commitments [announced by the President a year ago in his speech in Prague]. Things are falling into place...
...Republicans believe there is political hay to be made over the fight to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, you wouldn't have known it from the speeches at this past weekend's Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Some of the party's leading lights - and several of its most likely presidential candidates - focused their criticisms on the Obama Administration's record on spending and national security, with barely a mention of the looming court vacancy...
...made the high court a lightning rod of anger and agitation on both sides of the political spectrum for more than a generation. But speakers from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich to Governors Rick Perry and Haley Barbour bypassed hand-wringing over the potential implications of a liberal new Justice and the provocative, incendiary topics of abortion, guns and gay rights. Instead, they directed their fire at Obama's health care law, deeming it the ultimate manifestation of the Democrats' determination to expand the size of government in a "radical" manner. They also repeatedly accused the President, often in apocalyptic...