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...what’s behind this rise in B. Good goodness? Co-founder Jon Olinto says it’s all about getting out the B. Good name and encouraging real face-to-face interaction. “Our whole idea is real food,” Olinto says. “I’d rather spend 500 dollars giving away free mango shakes knowing my cashier Mike is handling each one, than getting a big billboard in Harvard Square...
...reminded of bath time as a child in my grandparents’ enormous tub. I would slide down on my back, submerge my whole body and then lurk there, grinning, until with luxurious slowness I let my stomach rise from the water. The smooth expanse looked like an island; I imagined my belly button as a lake. Each of my two knees would emerge in turn like mountains from the deep...
...growing rivalry between Indian and Pakistani intelligence services in Afghanistan’s capital. Some audience members, including Kurt L. Sonntag, a Kennedy School national security fellow who has spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, disagreed with where Rashid placed blame for the Taliban’s rise. “Some of the premises that the U.S. is at fault are not quite correct,” Sonntag said. “But there needs to be an international solution, so everything he said bears looking at.” Timothy F. Krysiek, a Cambridge energy consultant who attended...
...voters are expected to participate in the 2008 presidential election, a 20% increase from 2004. But the true test lies in battleground states like Ohio, Florida and Virginia, where blacks comprise a significant portion of the electorate. In Florida, for instance, blacks' share of the electorate is expected to rise to 15% from 12% in 2004, when only 44.9% of the state's black voters participated in the presidential election. While analysts like the Joint Center's David Bositis project that black voter turnout will rise to about 65% in Florida, they say Obama must work harder to surpass that...
...sure which McCain you'll get feeds Obama's case that being an unpredictable "maverick" may not be the model you want in times that call for methodical decision-making. But McCain's defenders cite another soldier turned politician who was legendary for his temper: George Washington. Those who rise in the military, notes Virginia Senator John Warner, "are people of strong will, of brevity, giving orders and commands. I just hope the people that occupy the presidency are people of strong will...