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...term forecasting particularly tricky. “You can’t predict more than a week or two at a time,” Farrell said. According to Farrell, the jet stream “wanders on week-long, or monthly time scales.” This mercurial pattern leads to stretches of unusual warmth as well as unseasonably cold spells in Boston, Farrell said. As Wofsy put it, Boston is particularly likely to experience a “January thaw” as well as a “January freeze.” And March, likewise...
...than other Democratic Presidential hopefuls, with a 62 liberal rating, compared with 80 for Feingold, 81 for Hillary Clinton and 86 for John Kerry. But in the last year and half, as he has courted fundraisers around the country for a possible presidential bid, he?s changed his voting pattern a bit. He joined with only 12 of his colleagues (nearly all among the most liberal members of the Senate) in opposing Condi Rice's nomination for Secretary of State and then joined 21 other Democrats in voting against John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination. John McCain has long been concerned...
There has been a pattern for modern American wars going back to Korea: broad public support at the outset, growing concern as casualties rise or progress stalls and then a new resolutioneither do what it takes to win or get us out. In Vietnam, nine years passed after the first U.S. servicemen were killed and more than 20,000 others died before a majority of Americans concluded we were on the wrong course. Opinion swung more quickly this time, as the cost-benefit analysis changed. When the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) weren't found and the Saddam...
...fashioned police work that led to the arrests. Investigators made casts of identical tire tracks at six churches, matching the pattern and size to a database of manufacturers. That narrowed the field to Toyota 4Runners and similar SUVs, and agents then methodically interviewed everyone in the nearby counties who owned such a vehicle. By the second week of March, they had questioned Cloyd's mother. Investigators say Cloyd cracked first, to his parents, who informed authorities; Moseley filled in the details for police. The three boys face five-to-20-year sentences per count if convicted...
...road woes reappeared for the Harvard men’s lacrosse team, which fell, 12-7, to No. 7 Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon in Amherst, Mass. Last spring’s squad won just one game outside of Jordan Field, but the team sees this loss as hardly a pattern, given last weekend’s victory over Stony Brook in New York and the fact that the Minutemen had not fallen at home since March 2004. “It’s a tough place to win on the road,” captain Jake Samuelson said...