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...this, Brennan said, "I think it's an unfortunate comment on the state of Harvard's intellectual life and the overwhelming liberal majority here that they prefer to insult me over various e-mail lists rather than engage with the substance of my argument...
...junior Dagmara Wozniak. But, despite these minor setbacks in the early parts of the competition, everything fell into place for Vloka, who was able to finish strong and win the bouts she needed to on the way to the national title. In the semifinals, she defeated Ohio State sophomore Margarita Tschomakova by a score of 15-10 and then went on to beat Ward by a slim two-point margin in the championship round...
Harry Reid, meanwhile, was hardly cowed by the onslaught of loathing swamping his state. After Palin finished Tea Partying in Nevada, the Senate majority leader appeared at an evening Democratic Party fundraiser in Las Vegas, featuring his old friend Al Gore as the keynote speaker. The former Vice President has not been very visible during the health care fight or its aftermath, but his remarks on Reid's behalf were passionate and compelling...
...Falun Gong spiritual movement, and in 2005 he wrote an open letter to President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao decrying the brutal treatment of Falun Gong followers at the hands of police. He was given a suspended three-year sentence for subversion in 2006, and then detained by state security officers a year later. They tortured him severely, which he detailed in a letter after his release, and threatened to kill him if he ever spoke about what happened...
...military campaigns in Chechnya or the other violence-wracked parts of the North Caucasus - Ingushetia and Dagestan. The insurgents' leader, a warlord named Doku Umarov, renewed his pledge last month to bring "holy war" to Russia's cities and industrial centers in an effort to carve out an Islamic state. "Blood will no longer be limited to our cities and towns. The war is coming to their cities," Umarov said in an interview posted Feb. 14 on the separatist website www.kavkazcenter.com. "If the Russians think this war is being waged on television screens, somewhere in the far-off Caucasus ... then...