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Kelly L. Lee ’07, Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, Maura A. Roosevelt ’07 and J. Claire Provost ’07 had planned a coordinated protest in which each would consecutively interrupt the speaker, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, by yelling specific complaints from the audience...
...even today observers in Portsmouth's Prescott Park saw a glimpse of the error screen the campaign currently faces. A modest crowd ("Oh, yeah, I've seen a lot more," said a local connoisseur) milled about while a speaker from a veterans' group tried to gin up some excitement with sheer volume: "Mah-CAIN! Mah-Cain!" he thundered. "We want McCain...
...election - parliament is to vote for a President in the coming weeks - would also give the ruling AKP control of Turkey's three top political posts: the Presidency, the Prime Minister's office and the Speaker of the Parliament. (In parliamentary elections later this year , the AKP is expected to be returned to power, albeit with a reduced mandate). The election to all three top positions of officials who "come from the same Islamic-rooted tree," writes columnist Metin Munir in the leading secularist daily Milliyet, augurs "the end of Turkey as we know it. "Turkey, he warned, is about...
...associates to share their memories of their leader. For the first time in at least four years, the forgotten politicians known as"democrats of the first wave" showed up on TV, and for the first time in years, Russians heard a lively political discussion broadcast live as speaker after speaker invoked memories of "free speech and the free media as Yeltsin' uppermost historical achievement," drawing waves of applause from the studio audience. This breath of fresh air in the long stagnant Russian TV atmosphere was the best tribute to Yeltsin - and the most bitter reminder of his worst failure...
...divide is deeper and more troubling. Back in January, the newly elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when unveiling a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming—named in the spirit of bipartisanship, no doubt—gave it this benediction: “The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal.” But then last Wednesday at the committee’s inaugural meeting, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican, countered: “One area where there is no scientific consensus…is the effects...