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...part of another game the G.O.P. plays better than the Democrats do these days: the expectations game. The Republicans are, after all, in the enviable position of being able to lose a lot. As long as they end up keeping control of both houses, they still come out the winner on Election...
...Carr Center for Human Rights Policy announced its six new fellows on Friday, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, a documentary filmmaker, and an NBC news military analyst...
...other five fellows are Caroline Elkins, Foster associate professor of African Studies and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer for non-fiction; Omer Ismail, a Sudanese activist studying the genocide in Darfur; Andrea Rossi, the former research coordinator of United Nations Children’s Fund’s Innocenti Research Centre; Beena Sarwar, a journalist and documentary filmmaker studying human rights in Pakistan; and William Arkin, NBC News military analyst who will be writing a chapter for the upcoming book “In Search of the Perfect...
...certain places around the green that you don’t want to be.” Despite an eight-shot improvement over the first day, the Crimson’s 298 fell well short of an astounding 293 put up by Princeton, which was led by eventual medal winner Annika Welander with a one-under-par 70. Freshman Sarah Harvey, who shot a 149 to lead Harvard, downplayed the significance of the loss. “We blew the rest of the field away by so much that losing by two didn’t mean as much...
...Despite his earnest reputation on family values issues, Foley's orientation was an issue that Florida Republicans - whose leadership, including outgoing Governor Jeb Bush, has taken a sharp right turn in this decade - wrestled with nonetheless while Foley considered running for Senate (the party ultimately backed eventual winner Mel Martinez). The e-mail scandal simply would have made it more difficult for Foley to swim on that G.O.P. beach, and would have almost certainly made the next month of re-election campaigning horrific for him. (G.O.P. House Speaker Dennis Hastert today said Foley had done "the right thing" by resigning...