Word: stirs
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...Clinton campaign in Vermont, and Chelsea Clinton came to campaign on Friday. But Barack Obama is dominating the polls. "This is a state with a strong feminist tradition, but Obama's eating Hillary's lunch," says University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson. Obama created quite a stir when he visited the campus last year. "I've been here 40 years, and I've never seen a longer line to see a speaker," Nelson says...
...recently, the local newspaper, Liechtensteiner Vaterland, said she was "using Liechtenstein like a whetstone to sharpen her claws." Günther Fritz, Vaterland's editor-in-chief, says, "We're not a very patriotic people, but under pressure from Germany, everyone is banding together." Bankgeheimnis - bank secrecy - may not stir the human soul the way liberté, egalité, fraternité does, but it seems to work in Liechtenstein...
Conventional wisdom tells us that the absence of Will & Grace—or Will & Will—from this presidential election is a good sign for gays and lesbians. During the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, the Republican Party used gay and lesbian issues to stir up their base. They used the breakdown of the traditional family as a rallying point around which millions of voters were mobilized. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and Public Policy and a member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Task Force, put it best...
...said. “The point is not where we come from, but where we want to go together.” When it came to the question and answer period, both Royal and the audience employed a mixture of French and English. While one audience member caused a stir by referring to Royal using the informal “tu,” other audience members critiqued Royal’s English skills afterward. “I wish she had spoken more in French,” said Anna Kosovsky, a senior at Bowdoin College...
...squad at bay. But despite sloppy moments in the first half, the Crimson never fell out of contention completely. An Emma Markley layup knotted the game at 44-44 with 10:13 remaining in the half, and a crowd left stunned by a feisty Penn squad finally began to stir. But then Penn, as it had done all night, fought back from behind the arc. The Quakers buried three consecutive treys in just under two minutes to take a 53-44 lead with just over eight minutes remaining in the game. “When you?...