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...first two weeks, it was smooth sailing. I could get by well enough to talk to my landlord, the program directors, random shopkeepers and cute guys on the street. I was loving Paris and everything about it. A quiet dinner and a trendy Parisian nightclub changed all that...
Harvard’s lack of initiative—combined with its quiet acquiescence to the U.S. government’s shameful tactics—is an embarrassment. The University’s conspicuous absence from FAIR—particularly when so many HLS faculty members have signed on in support—implies that a crude political judgment has taken precedence over standing up for principle. Harvard’s prestige and financial resources could make a significant impact on this case. By not pursuing litigation when there is so little at stake, the University has sent a message...
Peter "Sid" Sidebottom's constituents, he says, don't much like being in the spotlight. Since 1998, the Labor M.P. has represented the federal seat of Braddon, a quiet, largely rural electorate in north-western Tasmania of around 62,000 voters, many of them farmers and fishermen. But one of the region's other industries, forestry, keeps bringing the residents of Braddon's towns and hamlets the kind of attention that makes Sidebottom furious. "Many hundreds" of his constituents depend on the state's forestry industry, he says, and if the campaign in this election to phase out logging...
...first two weeks, it was smooth sailing. I could get by well enough to talk to my landlord, the program directors, random shopkeepers and cute guys on the street. I was loving Paris and everything about it. A quiet dinner and a trendy Parisian nightclub changed all that...
...quiet, baby. I got somebody on the phone. Put down that whip. No, some guy, Scott somebody or something. I don’t know...