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...what it is privately calling it's "firewall" strategy, the Republican National Committee has recently spent close to $4 million in three crucial Senate races - Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee - in the hope of holding Democratic gains to a maximum of five seats. No new RNC money has gone to House races during that time. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee last week decided to pour an additional $5 million into Senate races, compared with roughly $2 million in new get-out-the-vote funds being funneled through the House-focused Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "There is a real sense that retaking...
...investigating whether CIA agents had rendered an Egyptian prisoner, Abu Omar-Osama Nasr, illegally from Italy. Spataro told Grey that among the findings that most surprised him was the high-ticket hotel bills in his city; two alleged CIA agents under the names of Monica Adler and John Duffin spent $18,000 in a three-week stay at the Milan Savoy. Spataro has since issued warrants for their arrest, along with that of other U.S. citizens, in connection with the kidnapping of Nasr, who was sent to Cairo from Milan...
...cannot decide the appropriate way to spend the money, or if students prefer that the money not be spent at all, then the Council should reimburse a portion of students’ termbill fees—even if it only means sending a couple of dollars to each student. The UC should not misinterpret its mandate from two years ago. At the least, it must hold a visible debate, with plenty of input from students, about where to spend the remainder of the money. If not, its databases have our campus addresses in them. We wouldn’t mind...
...seniors who spent last semester abroad braced themselves for the rigors of Harvard this fall, few expected they would find themselves juniors. In the past month, several seniors have found out that they were listed as juniors by the Registrar’s Office after returning from studying abroad for credit. Several students were excluded from senior class e-mail lists due to error, preventing them from voting in the Class Marshal elections and signing up for yearbook sittings. “I had intended to run for Class Marshal but kind of missed the vote,” Kathryn...
Whenever a politician delivers an emotional speech announcing his withdrawal from the field of politics, and then cites as his reason a desire to spend more time with his family, it's a safe bet he's lying. Men who have spent years sacrificing family on the altar of ambition don't suddenly wake up one morning and decide they've had their priorities all wrong. The truth is usually elsewhere, and elsewhere is often a less than savory place...