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...other side's demands. Yet for all the bitterness generated by the crisis, there is little appetite for a return to the sectarian bloodshed that destroyed the country between 1975 and 1990. The January riot that left several people dead and led to a nighttime curfew served as a wake-up call to Lebanese politicians of the heated emotions in their respective communities. This week's double murder even led to an unexpected reconciliatory phone call between Nasrallah and Jumblatt, who have been at loggerheads for months. An encouraging sign perhaps, but it may have come too late to soothe...
...numbers. What startled Clinton's team was not just Obama's totals or his success at drumming up contributions over the Internet, but also how much he is collecting from the big donors who have fueled Clinton enterprises for the past decade and a half. "It was a real wake-up call," says a Clinton strategist...
...offers of help also came from judges, politicians, diplomats, colleagues and ordinary Joes. And on Monday at noon, traffic was blocked for five minutes in all of Serbia's major towns and cities as a symbolic gesture against the attack. So the grenades may have served as a wake-up call to Serbia to renounce violence and stop its slide toward the ugly past. Maybe this time, it will stay awake...
Stuart Heiser, a spokesman for the Council of Graduate Schools, said the increasing efforts of other countries to recruit international students should serve as a wake-up call for U.S. schools. “Just in the last six months a number of countries have announced multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns to attract international students,” Heiser said, citing France, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom...
After weeks of trash-talking on open lists, furious debate about T-shirt designs, and age-old rituals dedicated to the housing gods, Housing Day arrived, a madhouse of early-morning wake-up calls, face paint, and screaming mascots. And just as freshmen reaction ranged yesterday from joy to tears, upperclassmen showed their House spirit in a variety of ways, from a moonbounce to a Beirut tournament. Mather House, long famed for its Housing Day fervor, gathered its army of over 100 residents to storm the Yard at 7 a.m., according to spirited Matherite Troy C. Murrell...