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...wife is more blunt. "He's got access to every leader in every country, the business community, people of every political stripe," says Tipper. "He can do this his way, all over the world, for as long as he wants. That's freedom. Why would anyone give that...
Iraqi politicians of all stripe may have protested, but the wall around the Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliya has gone up anyway. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers have ringed the southern part of the neighborhood with concrete barriers, a move that has improved security but also prompted fears among local Sunnis that they are being ghettoized...
...That left the millions of voters who declared themselves undecided in the final week of the campaign - an astounding 40% of the electorate, according to recent polls - facing a quiet weekend to make up their minds free of media influence. Still, their friends and families, of whatever political stripe, will be hectoring them with a now familiar imprecation: to cast a vote utile - a useful vote...
...release, as you would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe; very Buck Rogers. Outside the train makes a searing boom sound as it rips the surrounding air, but inside the car is as quiet as an airplane cabin, if a bit bumpy. Even before you've grown accustomed to the speed, the ride is over, the maglev gliding...
...forgettable first half had been unstoppable during the second period. Alone with his defender on the left wing, Housman realized that guard Geoff Reeves was overplaying him to the right. Driving left, Housman finished high off the glass and drew the foul from Reeves, and promptly converted at the stripe to give Harvard back a two-point lead.“Normally teams put a big guy down low so I can’t drive,” Housman said. “But they had no big guy down low, so I just took the opportunity...