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Both Campaigns offer official gear on their campaign websites. For the Northeastern urban hipster contingent, the John Kerry Online Store offers an array of vintage gear. In addition, they sell a variety of dog tags including a Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Rainbow Kerry-Edwards Dog Tag. For those who want to wallow in past democratic defeats, the online store also sells historic campaign buttons, including Gore-Lieberman, Mondale, and Stevenson for President. For those nostalgic Democrats, Hidden Sweets also sells a t-shirt that reads “Carter in ’80: ‘He?...
Reilly’s decision was the final say in a lengthy appeal process for towns that were seeking to be exempted from a statewide, 249-town effort initiated by Public Safety Secretary Ed Flynn. The inspiration for Flynn’s initiative was a contraversial Northeastern University report, commissioned by the state legislature, which came out last May. The report analyzed traffic citations, warnings and search data for the state’s 366 law enforcement agencies. Under the statute that commissioned the study, Flynn was required to determine whether Northeastern’s data suggested a pattern...
Princeton’s defense, which smothered All-Ivy running back Nick Hartigan one week prior, approached Dawson with the same bend-but-don’t-break strategy adopted most recently by Northeastern, and executed it with modest results. Dawson did his fair share of damage in the first half—92 yards on 20 carries—but his longest rush was just 12 yards. Nothing too devastating...
Like many of the most dramatic dinosaur finds of the past few years, the new specimens were unearthed in a geological formation in northeastern China's Liaoning province that has become one of the world's most renowned fossil beds. Since the late 1990s, digs in Liaoning have produced an astonishing array of exquisitely preserved plants, insects, primitive mammals, birds and, most famously, feathered and winged dinosaurs...
In the Shi'ite universe, the first requisite for leadership is erudition, measured by a lifetime's knowledge of Islamic principles and law. Sistani's learning is universally recognized. According to his official biography, the child born into a pious, scholarly family in rugged northeastern Iran began learning the Koran at age 5. He absorbed the conservative traditions of the Islamic seminaries in Qum, where he arrived as a 19-year-old prodigy. Three years later, he left to study in the Iraqi city of Najaf, the prestigious 1,000-year-old home to some...