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...supporter who owns a scrapbooking store in Warrensburg, told me that her husband is in the military; he plans to vote against Obama because McCain is a fellow warrior. In other words, if Obama - a first-term Senator with an exotic name, liberal politics and a thin résumé - doesn't win, it will be for a lot of the same reasons other Democrats have lost, including the fact that Americans have leaned toward Republican Presidents for nearly 60 years...
...implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past for those artifacts is if they can suggest something bigger than the sum of their parts, and that involves higher emotions.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...habits amongst young people, we must simultaneously insist upon the preservation the our more classic literary forms. After all, perhaps there is less cause for alarm than a few among us might suggest; perhaps the duel for the hearts and minds of students is not quite a zero-sum game. Mark Seidenberg, a reading researcher at the University of Wisconsin, said it best: “I actually think reading is pretty great and can compete with video games easily.” In the end, our only choice is to have faith in Seidenberg’s prediction...
Christina Davis, the new curator of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, addressed a welcoming crowd last Thursday by saying, “It is an honor to bear the title, ‘curator of poetry,’ which seems to sum up in seven syllables my relationship with poetry—‘to care for’ poetry.” There has been a year-long lull during which the books, broadsides, pamphlets, and recordings of the Woodberry collection have been without a permanent curator. With this in mind, Davis has arrived with plans...
...veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family Support Bill were met with tremendous contestation by the Iranian women’s rights movement, whose counter-attacks included the “One Million Signatures Campaign” against the act and against similar laws allowing men uncontested rights to child...