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...drastically in the off-season—and as the high school band director eschews John Philip Sousa unfestive music in minor keys ricochets between the shuttered storefronts. There seem to be fewer veterans every year. Their absence is poorly disguised by the addition of more boy scouts. Bystanders shift from foot to foot, filling the gaps between cub scout dens with small talk—“Isn’t it warm for November?”—“Oh, look, there’s Timmy now?...
...Southeast Asia's most wanted man, Riduan Isamuddin, the alleged head of operations for Jemaah Islamiah, harangued a group of key deputies. Hambali, as he is known, was enraged at the thwarting of his plan for a series of huge truck-bomb attacks in Singapore. He ordered a major shift in strategy: instead of concentrating on political, diplomatic and military targets of the U.S. and its allies, Jemaah Islamiah was to turn its attention to "soft" spots?restaurants, bars and nightclubs frequented by foreign tourists, especially Americans. (It will be of little consolation to the families of those who died...
These startling results proved right the pundits who argued that the Democratic platform was nothing but smoke and mirrors. They hugged President Bush’s positions on terrorism and Afghanistan; most of them even parroted his hawkish stance on Iraq. Their efforts to shift the focus to domestic issues were completely unsuccessful—which might have been a blessing in disguise, because their domestic platform was little more than tired variations of stale ideas...
...When Republicans made gains, especially in the South, it was at the cost of conservative Democrats,” he said. “The leftward shift has been a slow pattern over the last two or three elections...
RAZA President Maribel Hernandez ’04 says this desire, in turn, often results from a shift in identity minority and marginalized students often face once at Harvard...