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...over Boston College at Bright Hockey Center last night. Stone has handed coaching duties for the week over to assistant coach Joakim Flygh, as she is currently coaching the U.S. Women’s National Under-18 team in Calgary, Alberta. “That’s a testament to our kids that our team is well prepared,” said Flygh of the win without Stone. “It shouldn’t matter if it’s me on the bench or Coach.” The Crimson...
Instead, Obama’s appeal across the boundaries of race, class, and gender is a testament to a less tangible difference that sets him apart from the rest of the Democratic field. That difference is his emphasis on change as the unifying theme of his campaign. Certainly, other candidates in recent weeks have attempted to appropriate the theme of change. In Saturday’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton used the word “change” 23 times; John Edwards used it 14 times...
...that point in the campaign, Huckabee was considered a nonfactor, which gave him the freedom to sermonize in ways that his front-running opponents had to avoid. In his speech he invoked Old Testament prophets, referred to the "holocaust" of abortion, and declared "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue, and not a recently acquired second language." A few media (including TIME) noted that Huckabee received more than half of the on-site votes in a straw poll, but most missed the story...
...year-old son, Bilawal, would likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday. PPP members met this morning to discuss the party's future and to give Bilawal, a student at Oxford, a chance to read his mother's last will and testament...
...Iraq. The United States - which controls Iraqi airspace - tried to forestall a Turkish invasion, but eventually caved into Turkish demands and agreed to a limited incursion. The fact that Turkey was ready to risk alienating its American ally for an operation with little chance of strategic success is a testament to the uproar by the Turkish public for action against the PKK. But it is also a troubling sign of the role that Turkey will play in Iraq as American power recedes...