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Standing in the Harvard-Yale tailgate, I was struck by the feeling that the event was less of a party and more of a “de-beer-iterized zone.” Hordes of police looked over the students standing ankle-deep in muck and surrounded by the Great Wall of Porta-Potties (undoubtedly erected to keep out the Mongolians, ie. undergraduates, with their public-urination ways...
...city their home. London is 31% foreign born, profiting from successive waves of the ultrarich--American bankers, Arab sheiks, Hong Kong Chinese. Now the Litvinenko case is making some Brits wonder whether the city has turned into Moscow-on-Thames, overly populated by secret agents and those who have struck it lucky at the roulette wheel of the former Soviet Union's rude, oil-soaked brand of capitalism...
...Harry Potter or Donald Rumsfeld. (He's tough! He's funny! He's a sex symbol! The Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him a "stud muffin.") With the worsening of Iraq, however, coverage became more assertive, and after Hurricane Katrina, reporters found they could question the Administration without being struck dead. With the "civil war" fight--as with erstwhile stud muffin Rumsfeld--the momentum has reversed. It's less important what the press is calling the war than that the White House is no longer calling the terms...
...been released, told police that she was attacked at the corner of Banks and Cowperthwaite streets after walking by two males standing in front of a convenience store. According to a community advisory released by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), the victim reported that the suspects struck her on the head several times. After she fell to the ground, the suspects took her wallet and fled the area. The advisory stated that the victim was not injured, and according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, she refused medical treatment. Catalano declined to release any more information about the victim...
...lead-up to the summit, Bush has struck an aggressive pose, insisting U.S. troops will remain in Iraq until the mission is accomplished, and denying that the country is in the throes of a civil war. But he faces mounting calls from Democrats - and not a few Republicans - to bring the troops home. And, academic debates aside, most Iraqis have known for months that they are in the middle of a civil war. Now major American news organizations have started to use that term, to the Administration's helpless chagrin...