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...nomination, their supporters at Harvard sharpened their teeth in a practice debate of their own. And just as in the upcoming Univision debate, Tom Tancredo was not represented. Advocates of six Republican contenders pitched their candidates in a debate held in Sever Hall last night. Bucking the national trend, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) drew the greatest support. Of the roughly thirty students in attendance, half were cheering for the libertarian congressman. The chair of Harvard Students for Ron Paul, Pedro L. Teixeira Jr. '09 drew sustained applause when he defended Paul against charges from opponents that...
...word ‘fuck’] is not polite,” Dudley soccer captain Eduardo A. Silva admitted, “but if you complain every time you use the ‘f-word’ in a soccer game...” Dudley IM reps Michael A. Kagan and Jonathan A. Fan brushed off the “incident,” saying only that Dudley’s soccer team “may in fact be a little more animated.” Both sides recognize that the level of intensity is different when...
...House Democrats reject such arguments. Bush's announcement in September that he was beginning a drawdown was "a study in calculated public deception," Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Committee, said last week. The pullout of 30,000 troops by next summer will still leave about 140,000 troops in Iraq, the same size force that was there before the 30,000-strong "surge" began earlier this year. "He made clear in that speech that as far as he's concerned," Obey said, "we're going to be there for the next decade...
...Rep. John Murtha, the gruff former Marine and Pennsylvania Democrat who chairs the Appropriations Committee's defense panel, expressed wonderment that anyone would believe what the Pentagon has to say about its coffers running dry. "Because the Pentagon says it, you believe it?" he asked a reporter at a November 20 press conference with Obey. "Go back and look - 'Mission accomplished,' al-Qaeda connection, weapons of mass destruction, on and on and on, and you believe the Pentagon?" He calls the Pentagon's alarmist warnings "Rumsfeld-like," which is perhaps the ultimate insult in Washington today...
...hours from platform 9? at London's King's Cross station, a cluster of students in starry robes, pointed hats and rep ties are learning how plants grow, but it's not botany; they call it "herbology." In an adjacent classroom a boy with a famous lightning-bolt scar brandishes his wand, chants "Numerus Subtracticus!" and conjures the correct answer to a math problem...