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Jeanne Shaheen, who stepped down as director of the Institute of Politics on Friday to run for the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire, lost by 4 percent the last time she sought the seat in 2002. But changes in the state’s political dynamics suggest that she might face an easier time in the upcoming race...
...Shaheen—who served as governor of the state from 1997 to 2003—is heading for a rematch of her 2002 Senate race, which she lost by just 4 percent to Republican Sen. John E. Sununu, the scion of one of the state’s most prominent political families...
...suffer. Unfortunately, a disturbingly large number of Harvard faculty are currently shirking their responsibility by not posting course syllabi online in a timely manner. On Wednesday, students working for the textbook discount website CrimsonReading.org visited the webpages of 231 popular courses and found only 42 syllabi. That only 18 percent of professors cared enough to post their syllabi is, quite simply, pathetic. This is troubling given the crucial role online syllabi play in students’ pre-shopping week planning. Many students depend on syllabi in order to purchase books early for classes they are sure they are taking, avoiding...
...Benefiting from the backlash against Greece's two main parties, the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party is expected to break the three percent threshold needed to enter the country's 300-seat parliament. Georgios Karatzaferis founded the LAOS after Karamanlis expelled him from the New Democracy party for his extreme views. A 2005 U.S. State Department report on anti-Semitism cited Karatzaferis as "regularly attributing negative events involving Greece to Jewish plots. He denounced politicians with Jewish origins and claims that Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks." The party has attracted droves of voters, however, though many...
...Pakistan is a different country from the one she fled eight years ago, and many have turned against the one-time democracy campaigner for sleeping with the enemy, Musharraf. Widespread accusations of corruption colored her last term in power, and husband Asif Zardari still carries the nickname "Mr. Ten Percent." An exchange of PPP support for Musharraf?s reelection as President by parliament has been conditional on the dropping of longstanding corruption charges against Bhutto and her family, but Pakistanis grumble that the law should be applied equally, no matter the status of those charged. These are all issues...