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Those nations would correctly perceive that Kerry sacrificed the principle of “presidents, prime ministers come and go” in favor of pandering to a small part of the American electorate, while being challenged by former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean. Within Germany, this principle was invoked by opponents of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2002, after he built his campaign around opposition to the war. Now it is Schroeder’s government which may be on its way out, and the opposition Christian Democrats who urged a quiet, behind-the-scenes dissent towards Washington...
Cohen credited McKenna with delivering the ball to sophomore midfielder Peter Doyle in the closing seconds of the first half to set up a shot that was deflected in by Johnson, bringing the score to 5-4 in favor of the Minutemen when it could easily have been...
...hands-on experience and trained to operate quite differently. In January before the House Armed Services Committee, Marine Corps Commandant General Michael Hagee said his incoming troops have been studying how the Los Angeles police department patrols gangland neighborhoods. They plan to be less intrusive, eschewing tank raids in favor of foot patrols, cultivating goodwill rather than taking the fight to the enemy. "There is a time for the iron fist and a time for the velvet glove," says Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of U.S. military operations in Iraq. Retired General Anthony Zinni, who headed the U.S. Central...
...like Avon, Barnes & Noble and Amazon than you'll ever be to them. The first offer of a lower interest rate that lands in your mailbox, and you're likely to be off--which is why card companies are increasingly hitching their stars to other brands. To win your favor, they're offering to help you buy more of your favorite products. Is there a downside to these deals...
...standing before an audience at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on Sunday, Green seems much less interested in these measures of institutional favor than he is with the reactions he’s getting from the students who have just seen his first feature film. On Monday, he stopped by Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 51a, “Fundamentals of Video,” to show his film and speak with a handful of film students about the Sundance-premiered film on militant radicals in the 1960s and 1970s...