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...thus forced to spin ourselves as specialists from the outset of the admissions process, although a core of uncertainty may lurk behind this effort. Even Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 acknowledges that the number of applications with no field of study marked “greatly underrepresents the actual numbers” of undecided candidates...
...What happened in those intervening few months? Is not the core Democratic complaint that it was overreaching in Iraq that caused the world to turn against us? And yet barely had we buried our 9/11 dead - long before we entered Baghdad - when the French, and the rest of the world, decided that they were not really Americans after all and were back to vilifying American arrogance, unilateralism, hegemony...
...polarized than it has been since 1994, when angry voters put the Republicans in control of Congress. This hardening of attitudes also helps explain why the swing voter, so sought after during the 1990s, is getting less attention. The name of the game for both parties is getting their core voters to the polls. Turnout increases last week were especially dramatic in areas President Bush visited in his campaign sweep the weekend before the election. In heavily Republican Laurel County, Ky., for instance, turnout rose 252% from the 1999 gubernatorial election...
...South, Bush may be a no-show. He is not scheduled to campaign in Louisiana this week for Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican whose Nov. 15 race for Governor is too close to call. The fear, says a White House adviser, is that Bush would galvanize "hard-core Dems" in the only Southern state that hasn't sent a Republican to the Senate since Reconstruction...
...social statement is badly written, badly acted and badly dated. Some of its scenes are put together wonderfully—particularly the nighttime car race—and there’s also the treat of a very early turn from Dennis Hopper. But, at its core, this is a movie where James Dean screws up his wax sculpture of a face and screams, “You’re tearing me apart!”—a movie that mistakes cheap melodrama for genuine humanity and whose worldview is as clumsy as can be. This...