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...Still, it's not clear how much all the shouting back and forth will change Ohio voters' notions about the candidates' positions on trade. Leaving his shift as a driver for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mike DiCillo stopped to chat with fellow Teamsters campaigning for Obama outside the newspaper's gates, one of hundreds of so-called worksite visits the union is doing daily across Ohio. DiCillo, 47, is planning to vote for Obama on Tuesday, in large part because of Bill Clinton. "The Teamsters endorsed Bill Clinton and then he gave us NAFTA," said the 22-year union member...
...started freelancing for The New Republic when I was in law school, but I always thought it was going to be just a hobby,” Toobin says. Equal parts pundit and pal, Toobin is in his element translating arcane legal-ese into plain English. And that he credits to Harvard Law.Toobin’s school ties are thick and fast: he met his wife, Amy B. McIntosh ’80, as an undergraduate, and his law school classmate and good friend Elena Kagan is now HLS dean. At this point, over half of the Justices...
...cognizant in a way that few Americans are that the use of force in the developing world can be counter-productive, summoning up the ghosts of a racist colonialism among those it is supposed to help. In fact, after their blood-drenched last century, many Europeans are just plain skeptical about force as a policy instrument in any circumstances. Unsurprisingly, those attitudes are held with particular devotion in Germany. In a recent poll for the German TV station ARD, 86% answered no to the question: "Should the German army carry out combat missions in Afghanistan like other nations' troops...
...enough to lead it to victory, Harvard exerted consistent pressure on the Eagles defense throughout the night. The Crimson battled hard for the puck in the neutral zone and kept finding ways to get a stick on the puck in front of the BC goalie John Muse. Call it plain old competitive fire, the seniors’ desire to graduate with a Beanpot trophy, or simply a flair for the dramatic. Regardless, the Crimson’s players were able to draw on mental toughness to maintain faith in their ability to skate with the Eagles all night, coming back...
Elizabeth B. David ’08 said the dining halls have not been serving tuna as frequently as two years ago, and Steven A. McDonald ’08 said he noticed that the red pepper hummus has been increasingly replaced by plain hummus...