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...have to evaluate its strategy, Galston said.“It’s hard to predict the future but...what the Democratic Party needs over the next three years is a really robust internal dialogue about the way it works. It is not a problem that you can sweep under the rug,” he said.Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said college students could benefit from the study’s application of past lessons to the present.“College students who are concerned with politics should definitely...
...Their equipment? A few sticks of TNT, some sacks of ball-bearings, nine-volt batteries, and three backpacks. In 2002 the nearly immediate discovery of key forensic evidence?the chassis number of the car used in the main bombing?started detectives on a trail that would lead them to sweep up all but a few of the plotters. This time, recognizable photographs of the three suspected bombers' severed heads have been widely published in Indonesia, yet police are still struggling to identify them. Bali police chief I Made Mangu Pastika admitted to reporters on Friday that his investigation had made...
...UConn tied the score at 27, leaving the Huskies three points from victory. Though the Crimson picked up two game points at 29-27, UConn took six of the next eight points to complete its sweep...
...wake of the July 7 attacks in London, Europe's governments continue to sweep their communities for potential terrorists. Last week, French police raids in suburban Paris and the city of Evreux in Normandy bagged nine alleged extremists linked to Algeria's terrorist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). And while nearly everyone in France agrees the threat is serious, there are quibbles about how imminent it is. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed that the risk of an attack "is at a very high level." Some see in that remark political opportunism, or at least exaggeration. "The threat...
...girlfriend, we broke up, I wanted to get her back and I knew she was going to be at this party. My plan was that I was going to meet her at the party and, you know, sweep her off her feet and convince her to get back together with me. She showed up at the party with her new boyfriend; they were both carrying motorcycle helmets and he had driven her to the party on his motorcycle. And that was a Baxter moment for me. I can’t compete with a guy with a motorcycle...