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...distance I could see the town where I was born.” Suddenly, the track picks up as the drums and piano kick in. Bruce’s guitar and Clarence Clemons’ saxophone both issue solos which complement the simple but powerful refrain, “Hey pretty darling, don’t wait up for me / It’s gonna be a long walk home.” It almost goes without saying that “Magic” does not live up to the standards set by “Born...
...less strict in reining them in. What's more, on the Democratic side, the DNC granted exceptions to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada (pleasing African-American constituencies in South Carolina and Hispanics in Nevada), and these "first four" have coaxed pledges from all the major candidates to refrain from campaigning in any of the rogue primaries. In swing states like Michigan and Florida, the absence of major Democratic political activity for four months could severely damage the party nominee's general-election chances. In Florida, primary participants may be especially sensitive to being told their votes...
Whether the French call Noriega a POW is more than academic, says Detlev Vagts, who teaches international law at Harvard. "You have to refrain from transferring a POW to a country that you think won't treat him as a POW," Vagts told TIME. "We returned a lot of German POWs to the French at the end of World War II. There are plausible charges that the French did not treat them as they should - kept them a long time and caused them to do dangerous work in mining...
...Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Aug. 25 online article "Harvard Places Second in College Rankings" incorrectly stated that the president of Wesleyan University had signed a letter asking colleagues to refrain from participating in the US News and World Report higher education survey. In fact, the presidents of Wesleyan College and Ohio Wesleyan University signed the letter, but the president of Wesleyan University...
...Obama held out the promise of bilateral talks with a post-Fidel regime. But he also stressed that he would refrain from any other concessions until Havana made more dramatic steps toward political reform. "As we reach out in some ways now," Obama wrote, "it makes strategic sense to hold on to important inducements we can use in dealing with a post-Fidel government, for it is an unfortunate fact that his departure by no means guarantees the arrival of freedom on the island...