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...Catlin split the defenders in front of the net and fired high over Cronin's left shoulder, giving Harvard the 5-1 lead...
...Gujarat is one of India's most earthquake-prone areas. But unlike in tremulous Tokyo or Los Angeles where newer structures are built to survive some seismic movement, state authorities in India are notorious for not enforcing building codes. As a result, many multistoried buildings either tumbled or split apart, turning apartments, schools and hospitals into mass graves. Those hospitals that remained standing were swamped with injured, and doctors were forced to operate in corridors crowded with corpses and the wounded...
...Sound familiar? Is this Gramscian/Tocquevillian split the same as the red/blue 50-50 division we saw on the electoral map in November? Yes, but not exactly. In millions of individual citizens' minds, elements of the two views blend. For example, I am essentially Tocquevillian, but the Tocquevillian American should nurture an enormous tolerance that is enabled by the assumptions 1) that American life ought, above all, to be fair, and 2) that there's enough here for everyone. But tolerance to a Tocquevillian is condescension to a Gramscian. Gramscianism lives on an invidious and Europeanized zero-sum kind of thinking...
Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted on the confirmation of John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general. Despite a barrage of vocal opposition from liberal groups and several Democrat Senators, the chamber, split 50-50 between the two parties, was long expected to give the controversial nominee the nod. TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller, who's been keeping a close eye on the proceedings, explains what's what now that the votes are tallied...
...Manila, Arroyo had an unusual upbringing. At the precocious age of four, she chose to live with her maternal grandmother in Iligan, a town on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. The reason: she was jealous of a newborn brother. She stayed there for three years, and then split her time between Manila and Mindanao until the age of 11. (As President, Arroyo says she will concentrate on the separatist problem that has plagued Mindanao for decades.) At 14, she moved into MalacaNang with her father. She was always a strong student, earning the top grades in her Catholic girls...