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...Abba hasn't performed together since 1982, but thanks to the hit Broadway show and movie Mamma Mia!, its continued popularity has made it one of the best-selling groups in history. But those pantsuits! Those songs! Nominating Abba to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sort of like saying the best dessert you've ever tasted was a Hostess cupcake...
...courtyards are by far the nicest. It’s the best because we’re not on the river, but we are close enough to Harvard Yard. But actually a House—not like Adams...the structure of Adams is a bit strange because it was sort of built upon aggregated things. So we are the only “house” House that has that...
...have daily all-House training in the courtyard...at sunrise. Surprisingly, attendance is low. I am thinking we should hire a bugler to play “Reveille” every morning, sort of like those loud bells we hear from Lowell. That should help get people...
...country." Rove's busy-beaver oppo researchers should get credit for digging up that one ... except that it was delivered in the midst of a vehement antiwar speech. Gore, in fact, was making a wise argument: war was not justified even if Saddam had WMD. But taking those sort of lines out of context is how you hammer your opponents in political campaigns - and Rove made sure Bush's White House was run as a perpetual political campaign, even when it came to war. This, not dirty tricks, is at the heart of the Rovian deficiency...
...There is also concern that Beijing will allow universal suffrage only after Hong Kong passes some sort of antisedition law that could make it illegal to campaign for democracy in the mainland the way Liu Xiaobo did or to call for the independence of Hong Kong, Tibet or the Uighur autonomous region of Xinjiang. In 2003 an antisedition bill proposed by the local government was defeated after a million people took to the streets in protest. Beijing has not formally made the antisedition law a precondition to democracy, but there have been subtle hints that it may be a factor...