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...Crimson has been practicing hard all week to prepare for these two battles. After the previous encounters this season, Harvard knows how it can shut these teams down...
...socialist policies, or his notoriously exaggerated personality. Chávez’s constant interruptions of the Spanish prime minister in late 2007 at a summit in Chile brought the king of Spain, a normally soft-spoken man, to shout, “Why don’t you shut up?” Yet Chávez will not be shutting up any time soon. On Monday, Venezuela passed a national referendum that removed term limits for public officials, allowing Chávez and his appointees to potentially remain in power for life...
...While the USCCB's literature about FOCA has been generally accurate, the chain e-mail has disseminated a number of false claims, including warnings that the proposal would force Catholic hospitals to shut down and lead to at least 100,000 more abortions each year. Some versions of the e-mail even claimed that FOCA could "result in a future amendment that would force women by law to have abortions in certain situations - and even regulate how many children women are allowed to have...
...Congress largely hailed President Barack Obama's decision Tuesday to send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But another legislative body, this one 6,500 miles from Capitol Hill, dealt Obama a blow Thursday when it voted to shut down an airbase vital to supplying troops and materiel to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The action by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is yet another bruising reminder for the fledgling Obama Administration - like economic indicators or nominees' unpaid taxes - that outside events can derail the most carefully developed White House initiatives. (See photos of soldiers in Afghanistan...
...opposition parties. "This is a positive sign," says Hala Mustafa, editor of the Egyptian journal Democracy. "In the end, the regime showed a relative tolerance toward one of its fierce opponents. It is a sign that maybe the regime is willing to compromise. Before, the regime [used to shut] the door for any compromise. Political openness is a must, and it is very difficult to turn back...