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...During his 2006 campaign, Irving said he tried to knock on every door in Cambridge. Though he fell short of that mark, he called his quest “the most fascinating experience...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Republicans in the 'People's Republic of Cambridge' | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...men’s hockey team was forced to watch the NCAA tournament from Cambridge at the end of last season. The Crimson came agonizingly close to an NCAA bid—the team’s loss to Princeton in the finals of the ECAC tournament ended its quest to travel to nationals. Harvard’s close call came after a miraculous winning streak during the months of February and March, that helped the team recover from a 10-game winless streak during December and January. But now, that experience is in the past, and a new quest...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Quest Begins | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...food travelogue, “Everything But the Squeal,” rarely fails to turn my stomach—and I suspect he’d take this as a compliment. “Squeal,” Barlow’s third food-writing venture, catalogues his quest to eat the whole hog in a yearlong journey through Galicia—a rain-battered, idiosyncratic area in Northern Spain. His challenge is to “eat every part of the pig, in as many places as possible,” but with a Dionysian disregard for order...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Everything' Missing Somethin' | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

After that, his priority, Obama said, is passing an energy bill. Presidents have been talking about reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels for decades. McCain's embrace of alternative energy has given the issue a bipartisan flavor. And Obama believes that the quest for new engines and fuels for the future will serve as a "new driver" for robust economic growth. (It has happened before - just ask Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.) But momentum alone won't make it happen. Beneath the surface consensus lies enormous controversy. The cap-and-trade system of charging factories and utilities for permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama and McCain Would Lead | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...agencies and other critics call Nkunda a power-obsessed warlord whose troops have raped and terrorized civilians in a quest to control a part of Congo with rich farmland and valuable mineral deposits. Nkunda, of course, sees things differently. He professes to be a protector and liberator of ethnic Tutsis like himself, still hunted by Rwandan Hutus who crossed the border into Congo after the genocide of the mid-1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Congolese Rebel Leader Laurent Nkunda | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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