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...propaganda, but they love that personal touch. They come in and say, 'Jeez, look at this note they wrote me. It's good to be wanted.'" She can map the change in priorities based on the school's spring 2006 college tour. Five years ago, they just did the northeast. This year the group, after visiting a campus or two in New York, split into two parts. The first went south to University of Richmond, Davidson, William and Mary, and George Washington. "People are starting to understand that a lot of the Southern schools in general are great," she says...
...KILLED. Mitsuhiro Morita, 35, Japanese crab fisherman, after a Russian patrol boat opened fire on his vessel in disputed waters northeast of the Japanese island of Hokkaido; in the Sea of Okhotsk. Russian officials claimed the ship's captain had illegally crossed into Russian territory, while Japan called the act "unacceptable" and demanded immediate compensation and the release of the vessel's remaining crew, who are being held by Russian authorities. The shooting is rooted in a 150-year-old row over the strategic, resource-rich Kuril Islands, which are claimed by both countries...
...media has deemed kingmaker would rather be home, playing piano. "I just got a new one," says Markos Moulitsas, founder of the website Daily Kos and one of the most prominent voices of the online left. On a beautiful Bay Area afternoon, the heat waves of the Northeast and the heated debate of the Ned Lamont-Joe Lieberman Senate primary are far away - and Moulitsas would like to keep it that way. He says he's only talked to one other reporter and isn't planning on talking to any more: "I'm going media dark. People are getting...
...Israeli military, it seems, are discouraging anyone from reaching Bint Jbeil from the western direction. There was more shelling coming from the direction of Taibe, a hill village to the northeast that has become the focus of a new Israeli ground incursion. A loud blast that carries on the hot wind marks an air strike, as jets provide cover to troops fighting Hizballah on the ground...
...Northeast The problem for the Connecticut Democrats is not simply one of Bush or the war. As the South has trended Republican over the two decades, the Northeast has trended the opposite direction, although more slowly. The state's three Republican members of Congress are almost always in danger of losing, but this year Democrats think they can not only beat them, but win a few seats in upstate New York as well...