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...renewal was delayed in the Senate for over two months by debate on the Patriot Act’s impact on civil liberties, Harvard officials said that the debate has not substantially changed the provisions of the act. “I think it was unfortunate that the tilt of the result is to leave the Patriot Act where it was, more or less,” said Director of the Harvard University Library Sidney Verba ’53. “The politics of it are complicated in that nobody, in an election year, wants to look like...
...long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...
...situations go on in the Ivy League season, it’s not what we’d hoped it would be, but a winning season is something that I think would be important for them as they walk out.”STEHLE CURTAIN CALLSaturday’s tilt with Columbia will mark the last game in the career of Harvard’s captain, Matt Stehle. Barely recruited out of nearby Newton South high school, Stehle has gone on to become one of the best players in school history. Stehle, who has started every game since the beginning...
...long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that has--as one of its stars and producers, Don Cheadle, boasted a month ago when the film won the sag ensemble award--74 speaking parts for actors. Hey, hey, U.S.A...
...Which is why this weekend's turn of events are so ironic and so revealing. By this time in a two-term presidential run, the vice president is normally running full-tilt for president himself, especially on weekends. By now, a veep is routinely raising eyebrows for finding reasons to be in key fundraising cities on Saturday nights. The last two-second term veeps, Al Gore and George Herbert Walker Bush, would never have wasted a weekend in rural Texas; they would have spent it in Iowa or New Hampshire or hopscotching somewhere else, collecting chits in key states...