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There was no sugar coating this one - the Republican Party got beat, and it got beat soundly. In any other year, Mississippi's 1st Congressional district would not have been a question. President Bush won the northeast corner of the state with two-thirds of the vote in 2004, the same margin that elected the last Republican congressman there in 2006. But Tuesday night, in a special election to replace the Representative who had moved on to take over Trent Lott's Senate seat, the results came in ugly. Travis Childers, a pro-life Democrat who supports gun rights, swept...
...Harvard, the navel-gazing capital of the Northeast, this requires real ingenuity. Those who might be noticed elsewhere—mathematical geniuses, talented musicians, beautiful people—are either so prevalent they generate little enthusiasm, or so rare that people have forgotten what they look like. Besides, these qualities are ones that many Harvard students have had ascribed to them (accurately or not) since infancy, and stars in these domains often leave them unfazed. This is why there is something quirky about Harvard’s celebrities. In a sea of excellence, those who manage to be famous must...
...Progress Report Later, taking a break in an unoccupied office, a tired Misra laments the state of public health. "This place is one of the good ones," he says. "I have seen hospitals with dogs below the beds." After graduating, Misra spent a few years in India's northeast, one of the poorest parts of the country. "I went to the rural area to serve the people but the government doesn't recognize that," he says, explaining that classmates who went to big cities "are now professors and earning big bucks." The system, he says, is set up so that...
...first time in more than 44 years, curious residents of both the Greek and the Turkish halves of Cyprus rushed across to get a rare taste of the other side. Gary Robb was not among them. "I could have made a dash for it," jokes the burly native of northeast England, who has lived in Turkish Cyprus since 1997. Had he done so, he'd probably now be in an English prison awaiting trial on the drugs charges he ducked 10 years ago, when he fled to this sunny but troubled bolt-hole in the eastern Mediterranean...
...Harvard men’s golf team travelled to Portsmouth, R.I. for its final tournament of the year and finished sixth in the Northeast Invitational. A field of 10 schools gathered to play 36 holes on Friday afternoon under sunny skies. Bryant University won the day, posting two rounds of quality golf, 295-295. Sacred Heart followed with a score of 293-300, finishing in second by just three shots. Central Connecticut and Quinnipiac tied for third, posting 298-310 and 293-315, respectively. Host Rhode Island pulled in at fifth, shooting 302-314, and Harvard found its place...