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...weekend’s concert was a way of promoting this sense of fellowship and of encouraging women to work together, she said. “Having an all-woman line-up is really rare,” Tuttle said. “Usually women are competing for one spot in a line-up.” Tuttle’s performance was followed by Kelsey M. Quigley ’09 and her band. Between performances, audience members competed in a trivia contest to identify famous female musicians, answering questions such as, “Who was the first...
...benefit from any renewed concerns over terrorism. "This is all related to the elections in the U.S. The timing is so close," contends Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst. "Bringing out the 'terrorist threat,' magnifying it, projecting it as a monster that needs to be dealt with on the spot ... serves nobody but John McCain." A parting shot from the Administration of President George W. Bush, or the beginning of a new military policy in the region? Syria - and the rest of the world - will be keeping a close watch on its eastern border...
...feel like there were any guarantees we were going to get the ball back, and we just had to have a play,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “To Chris’ credit, they covered it relatively well, and Chris found a spot he could lay it in on the flat route.”On the next play, Pizzotti went deep to the middle of the field, and junior wideout Matt Luft came down from between a slew of Princeton defenders with a 35-yard catch and a 1st-and-goal at the Tigers?...
...moralization of finance markets" and "re-foundation of capitalism". Though the most rabid adepts of laissez-faire systems like the U.S. are expected to rebuff such efforts to impose international strictures, Strauss-Kahn's profile as a respected economist and market-friendly leftist leaves him in a rare spot: The head of an international agency about to extend its powers that political and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic and Asia feel they can deal with...
Although Honolulu is the 14th largest city in America, the chain of islands in the most isolated, populated spot on the planet makes Hawaii a small-town kind of place to live. The place reacts with a kind of star-struck energy whenever an islander makes it big. Friends and families, for example, organized call-in centers to flood votes for Hawaii-born contestants on "American Idol." This year's Little League World Series champions from the Oahu community of Waipio were given a parade by the city that ran straight through Waikiki. But Obama's candidacy...