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...Harvard, student opinion of the campus wide housing overhaul is divided. While some support the large-scale renovations that would relocate students, touting it as a necessary part of keeping the historic houses as viable living options, others prefer short-term fixes...
...Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), which controls the lower house, and the DPJ, whose members won a surprise majority in the upper house in elections last July. With Fukui's departure looming, politicians have been unable to reach agreement on a successor, with some DPJ lawmakers saying they prefer former deputy Central Bank governor Yutaka Yamaguchi. Business leader Mikio Wakatsuki, chairman of AXA Life Insurance of Japan, told reporters this week that it was "a national disgrace that this issue remains unresolved...
Some issue movies have become for liberals, who are more than twice as likely as conservatives to say they prefer documentaries, what talk radio is for conservatives: a way of rallying the base. Many follow the pattern of the $370 million--grossing 2004 juggernaut The Passion of the Christ. Fewer than 0.1% of those who saw the film said they became Christians as a result, according to a Barna Group poll, but 18% of the audience said some aspect of their religious behavior changed--mostly praying and attending church more...
...website revealed his whereabouts. The really big news is that the third in line to Britain's throne says he doesn't like his own country that much. Yet look at the pictures of the prince on active service, and it's easy to see why Harry might prefer his hard army billet to the comforts of a palace bed. Dressed in camouflage, his pale skin burned as ruddy as his hair, the prince for the first time in his life was almost invisible, blending into the bleak desert landscape with its rich palette of colors - any shade, as long...
...These tensions - heightened by concern over the possibility of another war with Israel - often spill onto the court. Because Lebanon's Shi'ites generally prefer soccer (perhaps reflecting their status as a traditionally disenfranchised minority), the main hoops action tends to be Christian vs. Christian, and Christian vs. Sunni. In fact, basketball is an extension of politics to such a degree that when General Michel Aoun, a Christian leader, turned against the country's mainline pro-government Christians, one of the first things he did was start a new basketball team, the Blue Stars...