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...Harvard squad that finished sixth nationally last spring, there are high hopes for each on both the individual and team levels.“[Cross] seems pretty enthusiastic about the idea of coming back, which is quite remarkable after reaching the pinnacle of athletics,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “Her dedication to Harvard fencing is quite inspirational for everybody.“[Mills] is a very tough person, very tough-minded, very athletic, and has tremendous aspirations for going [to the Olympics] again in ’12,” Brand added...
...Mexicans as “illiterate peasants” on the State House floor. Controversial talk-show host Bill O’Reilly has accused supporters of the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill of attempting to “flood the country with foreign nationals.” Representative Peter King, told an interviewer that “there are too many mosques in this country,” alleging that most American Muslims support radical Islam. Unfortunately, a large percentage of Americans are as unfriendly towards immigrants as O’Reilly and King. In a recent NBC News poll...
...headed the planning for the Carnival, estimated that approximately half of the undergraduate body attended the event. Live performances by Petros (with help from members of the Expressions Dance Company), Show Me Action, and the Ben Kultgen Band attracted a small but vocal crowd in front of the stage. Peter C. Shields ’09, who performs under the name Petros, lauded the university for including student performers in this year’s back-to-school celebration. “This is a notch up [from last year’s event],” Shields said...
...that governments lose elections; oppositions don't win them. Cameron wants to topple it. "When a government is in trouble, an opposition party's main task is not to be unelectable. What David Cameron has achieved - and it's a massive achievement - is to make the Tories electable," says Peter Kellner, president of polling organization YouGov. "One of the things Cameron has understood better than his predecessors is that when people form judgments about politicians and parties, it's on the whole not a judgment about their policies; it's a judgment about what sort of people and what sort...
...nice a person could never have transformed the nasty party. It required some iron in the soul for Cameron to face down traditionalists who accused him of betraying Conservative values. That metal is well concealed. Peter Sinclair, his Oxford economics professor, says, "We've had rather few Prime Ministers who've been as intellectually able as David," but recalls that his student (who, he says, won "a sparkling first") was "keen not to show up other people." A similar tribute comes from Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford: "He was one of the nicest and ablest pupils I ever...