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...week, before Cambridge’s city council gets down to business, it opens the floor for public comment. During this period, any Cantabrigian may address the council for three minutes about any item on that day’s agenda. A core group of persistent citizens stretch this rule to the limit every week to advocate for the environment, defend the rights of the disabled, and expose abuses of power...
...Numbers like these concentrate the minds of Labour MPs. Certainly they feel gratitude to Blair for leading them out of the political wilderness into power, and they also share a tribal conviction, seared into their consciousness from 17 years of Tory rule in the 1980s and 90s, that disunity equals death. But now even Blair loyalists are thinking he may be past his expiration date...
...West's greatest institutions. Syed Ali Musa Zaidi Rawalpindi, Pakistan Queen Elizabeth's fame transcends her dominion. In Africa, when you say the word queen, the first thing that comes to mind is Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Curiously, although most of the world is under the rule of elected people, and progressive thinkers have questioned the relevance of monarchies in modern times, the vestiges of monarchical cravings are there for all to see in many a society. Otherwise, how could one explain society's fascination with the progeny and close relatives of powerful figures, from the Kennedys (and even...
...create a crisis? Could it be that the extremists all around see their interests - however transient, domestic and short-sighted - in heightened tension and crisis? This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading...
...soft looping liner, into shallow center field, plating two. Sophomore Brad Unger then came on for Haviland, who, all told, allowed seven earned runs on eleven hits—by far his worst showing of the Ivy League season—and gave up a two-run ground-rule double to Wendkos that sealed it. Stiller went the distance for Princeton, scattering nine hits and striking out six in a 121-pitch complete game.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...