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...Hitting is contagious,” Casey said. “Especially when you’re down like that, you have to get back quick, because the game’s getting shorter and shorter. Nobody really strung it together. Eight runs in the first isn’t something you want to come back from...
...News poll. Unfortunately for the Democrats, that 9% includes the noisier elements of the party's base. Senator Barack Obama found this out the hard way recently, when he said in an Associated Press interview that perhaps the best course of action was to "keep the President on a shorter leash"-that is, approve funding but limit the funds, forcing Bush to keep coming back for money. This unleashed the ire of Markos Moulitsas Z?niga, proprietor of the Daily Kos blog, who wrote with typical restraint, "What a ridiculous thing to say. Not only is it bad policy, not only...
...eclipse had occurred for a much shorter time span than expected, compelling Risaliti and his colleagues to reach an unexpected conclusion...
...intellectual and enjoy history, but don’t necessarily specialize in it. But though Richardson’s writing is easy to understand, her book is difficult to get through. One can’t help but feel that Richardson could have said it all in a shorter book. She reiterates the same fundamental points—there is a basic division in our society between special interest groups and those who oppose what they see as preferential treatment; this division can be traced back to Reconstruction; it affects all of our modern politics—over and over...
...also means time to spend with family and friends. Unfortunately, as Harvard’s mental health professionals have agreed, the current calendar renders our academic breaks brief and harried with the stress of looming finals and papers and an unreasonably short length (two or more weeks shorter than most schools). Furthermore, our strangely short winter break and awkwardly situated intersession typically mean that it is too difficult, brief, and expensive for many students from distant states and, ever increasingly distant countries, to fly home. Even those who return do not have enough time for both friends and family during...