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...exciting match-up: At the front of the ballroom, a crowd watched Jindal's results flashing on giant screens as they continued to rise, while in the back, pockets of people stood cheering at the LSU-Auburn game. In a region where college football is a religion, there was concern in the Jindal campaign about low turnout at the polls due to the game. At the end of the night, however, Jindal took almost 700,000 votes, the highest ballot numbers for a for a non-incumbent primary candidate in recent history. With a vote over 50 percent, Jindal...
...College’s mental health resources prevented Harvard from adequately treating its students. Despite the indications of overall positive wellbeing reported in the survey, Paul J. Barreira, director of behavioral health and academic counseling at University Health Services cautioned that some survey findings might be cause for concern. For example, Barreira said, 40 percent of the Harvard students surveyed reported having been through a significantly traumatic event, such as the death of a friend or relative. “I see this as a lot of people who are at risk for significant trauma,” Barreira said...
...editors: In her column “Overvalued Legislation” (Oct. 17), Justine R. Lescroart misses the point in her critique of legislation that would attempt to “correct” the trade balance between China and the United States. Her concern that taxing Chinese imports will hurt China’s economy and create a political precedent for protectionism in the world is probably accurate. However, the main reason we should not be worried about the undervalued yuan is that the major consequence– “allowing Chinese businesses to produce products... whose prices...
Amid reports of mounting Shi'a infighting there, officials in the Southern city of Diwaniyah, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, say that not only Iran but other neighboring countries in the Gulf may be involved in stoking the violence. Two incidents this week have ratcheted up their concern. On Wednesday, seven Iraqi police officers were killed by a bomb in the nearby village of Afak. That followed bloodshed on Monday, when at least six civilians were killed and dozens wounded in a mortar barrage on the Polish-run Coalition base in town...
...Portuguese Foreign Minister Louis Amado said at a tactical late night press conference designed to pressure last-minute holdouts such as Poland, Italy, and the Czech Republic. "It has been going on for six years. It is time to move on to the issues that are really of a concern to our citizens...