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...Hillary Clinton not voting, there is little Reid can do without GOP approval. Grim-faced and drawn, lawmakers Monday began parading across the Senate floor to give their views on the measure - the start of what will surely be a joyless run-up to one of the least popular votes of the year. See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...There needs to be a change in rhetoric,” she said. “‘War on terror’ was a very unfortunate metaphor that must be dropped.” Lodhi said that the phrase has led to the popular perception in the Middle East that the U.S. is fighting a war on Islam. She called for a strategy that was “mutually reinforcing” of the stability of Afghanistan and Pakistan. “A strategy for the stabilization of Afghanistan cannot lead to the destabilization of Pakistan...
...decides against Kennedy, Paterson could name an upstate candidate with downstate appeal, like popular Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African-American Democrat who could win over liberal voters in New York City. (Brown garnered 6% overall in the Marist poll and 10% among upstate voters.) State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, besides polling even with Kennedy in the Marist survey, offers Paterson another benefit. The "accidental" governor - who replaced Eliot Spitzer after his resignation amid a highly publicized sex scandal - will have to run for his own office in 2010, and Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary...
...Karamanlis or tanks." That was the choice that Konstantinos Karamanlis posed to Greeks in 1974 upon his return from self-imposed exile in Paris after the overthrow of the country's military junta. The popular former Prime Minister's triumphant return to Athens to lead the country's transition back to democracy was followed by his sweeping election victory and a place in history as one of modern Greece's great statesmen...
...adah ’76, a professor at Dartmouth College. Other former students described Hoffmann as “part of a cult of personality” of Harvard professors and an “absolutely legendary lecturer.” Hundreds of undergraduates regularly flocked to his popular courses on the origins of war and French history, despite the universal concensus that he assigned a voluminous amount of reading. Princeton professor Gary J. Bass ’92 recalls an incident when a teaching fellow burst into Hoffmann’s office with a course syllabus in hand...