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...Turnout among the youngest slice of the electorate more than doubled from 2004, when Howard Dean's intense campaign on college campuses produced far more modest results. This was part of an overall surge in Democratic participation - but while overall Democratic turnout jumped 90%, the number of young Democrats participating soared...
There comes a time in almost every presidential-election cycle when a small but earnest slice of the American political class gathers to lament the tawdry hyperpartisanship taking over U.S. democracy and to call for something new and better, usually in the form of a third-party or independent candidacy. In the 2008 election cycle, the gathering is taking place on Jan. 7, when a group of mostly retired Democratic and Republican officials, all known for their centrist politics, their seriousness of purpose and their commitment to good government, will meet at the University of Oklahoma, where former Senator...
...Shahrazad,” which will be presented in the Loeb Experimental Theatre from Jan. 10-12, promises to be “your Oriental fantasy come true,” says director Karol W. Malik ’08-’09. The play will bring a slice of classical Arabian culture to the Ex: The audience won’t have chairs as seats, but floor cushions, and the cast includes aerial dancers and contortionists. Originally written by famed Arabian writer Twafiq al-Hakim, “Shahrazad” picks up right where the famous...
...strength that will help them weather this confusion: they are tops in a knife fight. So uncomfortable is the party with anything that resembles an unsettled race after New Hampshire that its armies typically loose upon one another every nasty charge and attack ad they can afford, desperate to slice the field down to one or at the most two remaining contenders. This stage of the race is under way. It will be up to the lucky survivor to put the pieces of the party back together...
...City Olympic Games. As expected, Romney transformed a $379 million deficit into a $56 million surplus. He also set an example. Foregoing a salary, Romney cut the fancy meals and expensive trips. He infamously served his executives pizza on paper plates—and charged them a dollar a slice. Pledging to strip government officials convicted of felonies of their pensions and to prohibit senior staff members’ relatives from lobbying the executive branch, a President Romney could polish the GOP’s tarnished ethics...