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...victory speech was loud and strident, her written press statements challenging and boastful. But during the quiet moments at Hillary Clinton's rally in Columbus last night, and aboard her campaign plane bound for Washington early this morning, the mood was one of quiet relief. Winning Ohio and Texas means that her Presidential campaign will continue. But first it was time for weary smiles, a brief toast, and, finally, sleep...
Setting aside these social and academic justifications for this program, there remains one obvious and compelling argument for its implementation. Historically, Harvard College has scored remarkably poorly in student satisfaction polls. A prevailing mood of malaise in Cambridge hasn’t deterred new applicants, of course, and they’re still coming in droves. But if the food is lackluster, the housing sometimes derelict, and the faculty inaccessible, then at the very least we should come home to sleep on something wider than a plank...
Returning troops find that some Iraqis, too, are more willing to make friends. Plummer, who is originally from Kansas, remembers how the Iraqis he encountered on his 2005 tour "would give us dirty looks and wouldn't tell us where the bad guys were." He says the mood has shifted to the friendliness he encountered on his first tour, when many Iraqis were grateful to be freed from Saddam Hussein's rule. Plummer says Iraqis are now happy to engage with him and his men on matters ranging from trash collection to counterinsurgency operations. "The more they get involved...
...mood is very different in places like Mosul, where things have gotten worse in the past year. Norris, the son of an Army chaplain, spent his previous tour in Diyala, but some of his men have had firsthand experience of Mosul. Fleenor earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained here in 2004, and he lost his best friend, Sergeant Frank Hernandez, to a roadside bomb during the same deployment. As he walks the confines of Rabiya, Fleenor still wears a black metal band on his wrist etched with Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served...
...value that voters place on résumé is constantly shifting. James A. Baker III is an authority on this. In 1980, he managed the campaign of his well-credentialed friend George H.W. Bush, under the slogan "A President we won't have to train." But the public mood was sour on Washington, and victory went to an outsider, Ronald Reagan, who had never served in Washington. Eight years later, the mood was stay the course, and Bush's experience as Vice President was his ticket to victory. Then the atmosphere turned again, and in 1992 the public demanded...