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...were at the height of the Vietnam War. It had just been completed. The youth had really taken to the streets because of what the amount of death and what the country was doing. After the conservative revolution with Ronald Reagan, it almost seemed like the youth went to sleep or focused on a new area of interest...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Mike Gravel | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...told a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the demands of his job. "I'll tell you what the lieutenant governor's job is. You wake up every morning at 6:30 and you call the governor's house. If he answers, you can go back to sleep." Paterson will no longer be getting as much sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face of New York | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...real, or is it only a memory, in the past, in nonexistence?” The poem’s Philemon then comes to a realization: “It is real! She really shuffles. So, they are still together. Grateful and reconciled, he falls back into his fragile sleep.” Juxtaposing the tenderness of love and the fear of its possible loss, Hartwig grasps the most familiar parts of ordinary life and presents them in an estranged fashion, reintroducing us to its intricacies as if we were once again seeing them for the first time.Her overarcing statements...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'In Praise Of The Unfinished' Proves Praise-Worthy | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Southern Lebanon in May 2000 proved counter-productive. It brought Hezbollah 20 miles closer to the Northern borders. Its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 was fatal. With long range missiles, neither the residents of Sderot, not Ashkelon, nor my parents in Tel Aviv, can sleep peacefully at night...

Author: By Shira Kaplan | Title: Israel’s New Reality | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...going to sleep well tonight," said Matt Hicks, a volunteer who organized a series of Clinton rallies in Columbus in recent weeks. Before anyone went to bed, Clinton and her surrogates were busy preparing her supporters and the nation for the fact that the Democratic primary battle was not yet finished. Some Democratic Party leaders, including Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, had called on Clinton to pull out of the race if she lost in Ohio. With John McCain now assured of winning the Republican Party nomination, they worried that a protracted battle between the Democratic frontrunners would divert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Camp Tired but Happy | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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