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...with striking self-importance, brands the 23 senators who voted against war as “the immortal 23.” As the names of each are read aloud, the patriotic soundtrack swells and the movie finally ascends to the peak of sickening self-righteousness it threatened to reach from the outset. It’s not the soldiers—who include Young’s younger brother—fighting on the ground or the Iraqi citizens suffering daily suicide bombings that receive the film’s ultimate recognition, but rather senators in Washington. This hollow...
...definitely a spark,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “We came out much more aggressive in the second game with much more fire.”After scoring a run each in the second and third innings Harvard put the game out of reach in the fourth when it managed four runs. First up was Lauren Murphy, who in her previous at bat in the second crushed her 5th homerun of the year. Murphy, and then junior Bailey Vertovez, drew walks to put runners on first and second. A fielder’s choice...
...Across the board, evolution is about as exciting an idea as human beings have had because it explains so phenomenally much—existential questions like where we come from, why our brains work this way,” Berry said in an interview yesterday. “This reach and power...make it especially amenable to this interdisciplinary interaction...
Yesterday, in their droves, the people of Nepal voted for an end to politics as they once were. Some trudged for days through mountain paths to reach polling booths, others lined up for hours on deserted streets, braving threats of violence from extremist groups-yet, by day's end, nearly 65% of the nation's voting population had exercised their franchise. Politicians of all factions proudly strutted before the ballot box, wreathed in flower garlands, sporting triumphant smiles. They were all participating in a process that aims to replace Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy with a secular republic...
APRIL 2008 After hearing more than 240 witnesses over six months, the 11 jurors reach conclusions similar to the '06 findings; claims of conspiracy are dismissed...