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...help mask the physical toll of his job--which he may well lose when Italians go to the polls this Sunday, with most voter surveys putting his center-left opponents ahead by 5 points. When he thanked supporters at a campaign stop in Naples last week, he couldn't avoid calling attention to the fact that he is, by any measure, a senior citizen. "A welcome like this knocks 10 years off my age!" he said...
...turmoil over recent rape allegations aimed at Duke men’s lacrosse team has brought an immense amount of negative attention to that institution’s athletic department. For a school that has long been held up as striking an excellent balance between athletics and academics while avoiding the transgressions that have often marred programs at other big-time schools, this attention is new and exceptionally disappointing. Duke teams have often been held up as a model of how college athletics should be; an academically great institution fielding teams from which most players graduate...
...done deal, getting rid of Jaafari may yet prove to be the easy part. It will certainly take a lot more than changing the nominee for prime minister to forge a strong government of national unity in an Iraq where most political leaders say they want to avoid a civil war, yet seem incapable of making the compromises required for success...
...camera over his shoulder and took off in pursuit. He arrived just in time to capture Harper stepping out of his car and grimly walking past the usual gaggle of smokers puffing away outside the entrance. Modderman was astounded by the extent of Harper's apparent determination to avoid the media. "He hates smoking," Modderman quipped...
...gallery opposite the entrance to the Cabinet room for at least 30 years. Journalists say that being barred them from their regular third-floor perch means they no longer have a chance to approach (i.e., shout questions at) the meeting's participants and that ministers who want to avoid the press will be freer to do so. "It's a concrete example of how the Prime Minister's Office is trying to restrict and control which members of the Cabinet talk to Canadians and about which issues," says Parliamentary Press Gallery president Emmanuelle Latraverse of Radio-Canada...