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...risk looking hypocritical now that they're in charge on the Hill. The ACLU points to its own polling that it says shows Americans support pushing back against the President and cites three races to back the numbers up. In Montana and Ohio, Senate challengers opposed to the popular Patriot Act fended off harsh attacks from Republicans on their position, and in a key Connecticut House race the anti-executive authority position helped seal victory for the Democratic challenger. Still, "that doesn't guarantee that the Democrats have found their backbone," says ACLU Washington representative, Caroline Fredrickson...
...reminds me of me. My father spent his career fighting the Cold War, he joined the army when he was 19, went to Vietnam. His whole life was shaped by that arc in American politics. He's exceptionally liberal but in the military, but is a humanitarian and patriot who believes in humane intervention, in helping, that's what you do. Nadia is a person not afraid to say 'I care about the world to do something, and I care enough to be ostracized.' She's very much alone. I've always found that so moving about my father, that...
...Gates is all things to all people in Washington these days. To the hard-liners who want to preserve what's left of George W. Bush's policy in Iraq, Gates is an ardent patriot, a determined anticommunist who thought the Soviet Union was an evil empire, who backed aggressive measures against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the early 1980s--and who during the first Bush Administration sided most often with a Defense Secretary named Dick Cheney...
...points while sophomore guard Drew Housman added a season-high 18.Junior forward Brad Unger had 11 points off the bench and sophomore guard Andrew Pusar scored a career-high 10 points. He also had four of the team’s 15 offensive rebounds. Last week’s Patriot League player of the week, senior guard Jose Olivero, paced the Mountain Hawks (2-5) with 15 points but was only 5-of-17 from the floor.Trailing 41-22 at halftime, Lehigh scored on eight of its first nine possessions to start the second half. Twice, the Mountain Hawks made...
...basketball team’s 83-75 win over Lehigh on Saturday afternoon, the Crimson claimed victory partly due to its strongest rebounding game this season. The Mountain Hawks entered the game out-rebounding the competition by 5.3 boards a game, the second best margin in the Patriot League. Thus, Harvard’s 37-33 besting of Lehigh on the glass looked all the more impressive. When you break down this statistic into offensive and defensive rebounds, the Crimson improved on its season average at both ends of the floor. While Lehigh out-rebounded Harvard 18-15 on offense...