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...reasoning behind it was that all our other lineups we were working with, with our various injuries, weren’t working, so we just tried something new,” co-captain Eric Kuld said. “Gil [was] back in as setter. We moved some hitters around. The changes seemed to be working pretty well. Everyone was pretty comfortable with the team...
After a year of debate in the House of Representatives and the Senate, thousands of town-hall meetings across the country, countless days of blockading through various Congressional rules and regulations, and preliminary passage in both chambers of Congress, it is high time for our members of Congress to pass comprehensive health-care reform. Yet it seems that partisan tactics will forever stymie any real reform. Therefore, we believe it was appropriate for President Obama last week to indirectly call on Congress to invoke reconciliation, a budget procedure that allows for a simple-majority vote to overcome fiscal...
This unassuming Web site sells itself as a “chatroom for Harvard students, and only Harvard students” and offers chatrooms for various classes. Bored? Bewildered? Head on over...
...trade between Africa and China has surpassed $100 billion, Beijing has won its fair share of admirers too, not least among them many Africans whose quality of life has been improved by an influx of cheap Chinese household goods. China has also established a network of "Confucius Institutes" in various African cities to disseminate Chinese culture, while more and more African exchange students are attending Chinese universities. A flotilla of Chinese warships is part of an international operation attempting to curb piracy off the shores of Somalia. "This discussion of Zheng He is being carried out in China...
...Even as Senator Mitchell shuttles between them, both sides appear set to escalate their confrontation on the ground, in growing battles over expanded Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and elsewhere and over the status of various sites considered holy by both Jews and Muslims. Last Friday's confrontations between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinian youths in Jerusalem may be a portent that the latest round of peace talks could, in fact, be starting under the cloud of a looming intifadeh...