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...Festival, the first of its kind at Harvard, is a university-wide filmmaking contest that will feature the best three-minute digital movies made by anyone in the Harvard community. If walking down the crimson carpet and enjoying celebrity status aren’t enough incentives, winners can also win prizes...
...first shirts-and-skins President was Ronald Reagan, the first truly conservative Republican elected in 50 years. But it was only after Reagan and his GOP successor, George H.W. Bush, left office that congressional Republicans realized they could use political polarization to stymie government - and use government failure to win elections. And with that realization, vicious-circle politics started to become an art form. (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...
...Democrats lost Congress, and Republicans learned the secrets of vicious-circle politics: When the parties are polarized, it's easy to keep anything from getting done. When nothing gets done, people turn against government. When you're the party out of power and the party that reviles government, you win. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...
...open primary, which encourages candidates to appeal to voters outside their party. If every state took New Hampshire's example to heart - and allowed independents to vote not only in presidential primaries but in congressional ones as well - the consequences could be profound. Not only would more moderate candidates win, but the same candidates would stake out more-moderate positions, the result of which might be something of a bipartisan rebirth...
...reasons for favoring her sibling's sport. "It's like comparing gymnastics to football," says Karin, 21, a student at the University of San Diego. "With one you do tricks and stuff, but at the end of the day, [skiing] requires more strength and power. I think Lindsey would win...