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...lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...possibility of overtaking the top rank in women’s hockey looms large this weekend for the No. 2 Harvard women’s hockey team. The Crimson (9-0-0, 9-0-0 ECAC), currently trailing UNH in the national poll, is set for a weekend of non-league action against No. 10 UConn (11-3-1, 4-2-1 Hockey East) at Bright Hockey Arena tonight at 7 p.m. and Providence (6-6-2, 4-2-1) Saturday night in Providence, R.I.But what most Crimson skaters can taste right now is not the prospect...
...opinions of 2,526 U.S. citizens, also reported that 36 percent of likely Republican voters and 18 percent of likely Democratic voters said they were “dissatisfied” with the choice of candidates for their party’s nomination. Thirty-seven percent of all polled said that the poor showing on both sides of the aisle recommends the rise of a third major party. The same percentage of respondents registered “Iraq and the War” as their number one issue, while health care came in a distant second at 9 percent...
...radical. “Apparently being too radical means you're in favor of obeying the Constitution, you're for the rule of law, and you're for following the Founding Fathers," Teixeira said. Andrew L. Schlafly, Jr. '10, who chairs Harvard Students for Huckabee, pointed out a Rasmussen poll released yesterday that, for the first time, shows former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leading among Republican primary voters nationwide. But the representative for former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, David A. Lorch '08 was bullish nonetheless. "Support a candidate who really has a chance of winning," he told Paul's supporters...
...Sharif's astute display of political theatre presages many more to come in the run-up to parliamentary elections slated for January 8. Few in Pakistan expect the poll to be either free or fair: Emergency rule will not be lifted until December 16, leaving candidates little more than three weeks of campaigning; several provincial candidates may have to campaign while under house arrest; and Sharif himself has been barred from running for Prime Minister. Rumors abound of electoral rigging, ballot stuffing and vote-buying. Given the fraught campaigning atmosphere, candidates are struggling to get the public's attention. Highly...