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...response at best, but one invested with a larger truth. For too many liberals, all secret intelligence activities are "fruit," and bitter fruit at that. The government is presumed guilty of illegal electronic eavesdropping until proven innocent. This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era, when the Nixon Administration wildly exceeded all bounds of legality-spying on antiwar protesters and civil rights leaders...
Abramoff's politics were also conservative. As a student at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, he and Grover Norquist, a Harvard Business School student who later became one of the most powerful G.O.P. antitax activists of the Bush era, undertook the challenge of trying to mobilize the state's famously liberal college students behind Reagan in 1980. Norquist recalls they scored a big political coup in winning over the Bostoner Rebbe, one of the nation's most influential Hasidic leaders, whose endorsement they figured was good for about 3,000 votes. That was just about the size of Reagan's upset...
...Quebec has been given new life by the recent election of a determined young separatist named André Boisclair to lead the province's still formidable sovereign party. That's why an election that started out as a mere annoyance may pull the curtain down on a political era. According to one survey, 60% believe the government can't fix the cronyism that permeates the federal bureaucracy. For the unlucky Martin, it has become the perfect storm. One of Canada's most accomplished Finance Ministers, Martin, 67, had long groomed himself for the national stage. The names in his personal...
...they are only freshmen—it’s their first time through, they don’t really get it yet, unfortunately.” Harvard has had a successful season thus far, as the eight victories tie a record for non-conference wins in the Sullivan era dating to the 1991-92 season, but such success does not automatically continue through to the intense Ivy campaign.The last time the Crimson went 8-5 in non-conference play was the 2002-03 season, which ended in a disappointing 4-10 record against league foes.“It?...
...Evidence of a fifth dimension could signal a new era in physics and could mean significant accolades for Randall. The Boston Herald speculates she would be a “shoe-in” for the Nobel Prize if the collider proves her correct...