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...government, these clashes proved that its hardline policies were justified. "Call it the politics of prudence," says government spokesman Oussama Romdhani. "Why open a Pandora's box by giving fundamentalists a political party? We are sitting peacefully." But even strict secularist laws might not shield Tunisia from growing Muslim fervor in the region. "Before, you never saw a woman veiled in Tunis," says Amel Belhadj Ali, a journalist for the Tunis magazine L'Expression, sitting in her office in jeans and a T shirt. "Now you see more and more." Anti-American sentiment may also be on the rise...
...Through its support the Institute is also able to track trends with students. According to Senior Program Officer Ashford, the strict left-right see-saw is not appropriate any longer, especially for young voters. “The political parties, the media, and the government are structured with the idea of liberal-conservative. I think most young people don’t fit into either category. They don’t fit into those labels, but they don’t have a name to identify what they...
...turn away from a strict alcohol policy coincided auspiciously with another campus project: resurrecting fun at Harvard. As the committee pounded out its new policies, the Undergraduate Council was instituting a fledgling program that would subsidize private parties in Harvard’s dorms...
...approach works because Madden combines it with an unusual level of accessibility that goes against the modern political-campaign theory of strict "message control." Madden's availability and conviviality--he often says that Romney's teetotaling ways mean "there's more left for me"--help shore up the image of a campaign where everything is going just fine, no matter what you hear to the contrary. Says Madden: "The biggest mistake press secretaries make is that they view the press corps as the enemy. I view them as a conduit." That's not the same, it should be noted...
...weren't prepared for the overweening bureaucratic scrutiny the agency subjected us to. There were long, psychological exam-style questionnaires to fill out, strict contractual pledges to sign - and interrogations of the neighbors, whose names we had to submit as character references. When the agency finally delivered the dog - I'm withholding its name because it's still a minor, at least in human years - the agents insisted on staying for much of the afternoon to make sure we weren't going to make it mow the lawn or clean the bathrooms...