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Which brings us back to Sogavare's populist trump card. Sovereignty is a slippery concept in the arc of instability to Australia's north. In a typically under-the-radar speech on RAMSI's third anniversary, Batley defined it for tomorrow's leaders. "Sovereignty is not just about having the ability to pass laws," he told university students in Honiara. "It's also about the capacity of a nation to enforce those laws. Sovereignty is not just the ability to announce government policies. It's about the capacity of a nation to implement those policies and to pay for them...
...general Steve Carter filed a lawsuit against the group last week after receiving complaints that it was "push polling" against Democratic congressional candidate Baron Hill. Automated calls placed by the group claimed to be conducting a poll, then attacked Hill's voting record. The tactic usually goes below the radar. In this case, the Indiana AG claims it violates the state's telemarketing...
...herself as a Republican), she launched a website that, on its first day, was dubbed "the movie equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven's Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it's the disastrous clone of Tina Brown's Talk, JFK Jr.'s George or Maer Roshan's Radar." She showed the naysayers on that one - the Huffington Post has become a wildly popular must-read (her reporting on the Plame case and struggles inside the New York Times newsroom incited its own name-the-source guessing game). In any case, her new book, On Becoming Fearless...
...average sports fan, tennis doesn’t really land on their radar. Even ESPN.com has the sport tucked away in the “Other” section of its homepage.Last Thursday night, with the NFL season kicking off and division races in the Major Leagues intensifying, this reality was no different.But it should have been, especially here in Cambridge.One of our own, James Blake, was competing at the highest level of this unknown but beautiful game.Blake faced off against the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the incomparable Roger Federer, at the most significant stage in American...
...trend is most pronounced at academically rigorous schools. "Ten years ago, this wasn't even on the radar," says Ken Fox, college and career counselor at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Mo. "Now it's the biggest thing going." Of 300 seniors at his school, 40 have already applied to colleges. At Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, 108 of 320 seniors have sent in applications, and a few already have admissions in hand...