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...opposed by more than 60% in most polls. A year from now, Senate Republicans will have to defend 21 of the seats they currently hold, compared with only 12 for the Democrats. That helps explain why some of the strongest critics of the Bush plan are endangered Republicans like Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Susan Collins of Maine--and why Republican leaders aren't putting any pressure on them to back off their criticism...
...cards. “Just like the events last year, this was meant to give the students an opportunity to be a part of the planning process,” wrote event organizer Nate T. Picarsic ’07 in an e-mail. In a reversal from the norm, it was the pizza that provided a greasy yet savory palate cleanser for the tasting’s main attraction: the soft drinks. Billed as a restaurant opening by ads on Annenburg tables, the event featured a potpourri of non-alcoholic stand-bys including Coke, Pepsi, Sprite...
...It’s definitely different from the norm,” said Autler, who added he expects it will take a year for the plans to be reviewed and approved...
...Review,” said Kayyem, a former Crimson reporter. “He said that he had never understood why people from Harvard took such conventional routes after graduation, because if there was ever any group of people that could deal with a line of work outside the norm, it was them. He was telling us to try different things, and I followed his advice. I followed Deval,” she said...
...loose network of lawyers, congressional staff members and academics have filtered that torrent, verifying and using parts of it for their cause, many of them without knowing Kimberlin's background. Most notably, he played a key, behind-the-scenes role in a Princeton study issued last September that Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute says "caused a significant alteration in the debate" over e-voting. The office of Rush Holt, the leading congressional advocate of reform, has called Kimberlin "influential" in the movement...