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...says a Clinton strategist. "It is going to be a much more rugged fight, because her lifeline is these uncommitted delegates, and they can be shaky sometimes." Obama's team continues to push the case that the supers ought to follow the lead of the pledged delegates for the sake of party unity...
Last Monday, members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came to Boston to hold hearings on an important subject: whether broadband providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast should be allowed to manage Internet traffic for efficiency’s sake. It’s a useful question, and one that abuts the controversial debate on network neutrality: the idea that broadband networks should blindly treat each bit of information on the Internet equally...
...students can vouch for the fact that their extracurricular obligations place a greater burden on their studies—but no one is telling a Phillips Brooks House Association volunteer or a Crimson Key comper when their hard work must come to an end for academia’s sake. University President Drew G. Faust will sit on the committee to select a replacement for Orleans. We hope that she and the selection committee will urge Orlean’s replacement to lift the ban on the football playoffs in the name of equality. The possibility of a playoff berth...
...middle-class neighborhood of Caracas.”The blackness of this humor is a reminder that, however amusing their writing may be, these characters remain misanthropic monsters. Throughout the book, Bolaño exhibits an anxiety about the inability to simply enjoy literature for its own sake. What does it mean when, in a poem about personal relationships, the fictional Luz Mendiluce Thompson writes, “in my heart I am the last Nazi?” For Claudia, the woman she madly loves, it means that they’re mortal enemies. “Why? Because...
...young man like Prince Harry, whose academic career was less than stellar, being called "exemplary" by two such distinguished figures could send a rush of blood to the head. Yet this exemplary soldier is now on the way home, withdrawn not only for his own safety but for the sake of the troops serving alongside him. The Prince's frontline deployment had been kept under wraps by British and international media outlets at the request of Britain's Ministry of Defence. Harry was due to deploy to Iraq last year, but his posting was canceled amid concerns that he would...