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...mental evanescence which animates us all, the spirit; that too can become ill. Our souls are no less fragile than our bodies, their immortality notwithstanding.”Roxanna, who believed Frederick to possess great wisdom and sensitivity in nearly everything, considered these remarks gravely. She wished she could push back the hair from Frederick’s face with a gentle hand, but the thought merely made her blush and look at the floor.With a sigh, Frederick stood violently and exited the room. A paper fell from his Byron. Roxanna automatically picked it up. The poor man! thought...
Presidential campaigns have long followed the same familiar calendar: a primary season, followed by party conventions, debates between the major-party candidates, a four-day intensive get-out-the-vote push that usually starts around Halloween and finally - after voters have sifted through ads and arguments or perhaps flipped a coin - Election Day. But in recent years the availability of early voting, whether by mail or in person (with some polling places open on weekends), has increased as voters have demanded a convenient alternative to waiting in long lines on the first Tuesday of November...
...parties, which have shared power in grand coalitions for most of the post-war period, are running out of steam. The latest partnership lasted less than two years before collapsing in acrimony in July, triggering this month's vote. An un-charismatic Social Democratic chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, failed to push through a single major policy initiative in the face of opposition from his ostensible governing partners in the conservative People's Party, which was looking for any excuse to break up the marriage. The final straw appears to have been Gusenbauer's promise, in a letter to a mass-market...
...think it makes the conversation better and creates a more lively environment,” said Peter Becker, a History and Literature tutor. “[The students] see what their peers are doing, and there’s a certain incentive to push themselves...
Schwartz took over the Air Force last month after Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired General Mike Moseley. Gates has clashed repeatedly with the Air Force over its mishandling of nuclear weapons, its push to buy more costly manned warplanes and its foot-dragging in sending more drones to the war zones. He and Moseley also differed over whether non-pilots should be able to operate weapons-carrying drones. Like other previous Air Force leaders, Moseley argued that only a trained pilot had the mental and moral heft to deliver bombs and missiles, or could avoid mid-air collisions with other...