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Don’t be fooled by the big poofy hair, the glasses, or the mile-wide grin.No, this athlete may not look like your typical muscular jock, but he has a license to kill—with a saber, that is.Senior captain and saber fencer Tim Hagamen went into the NCAA national competition March 22-25 with one thing on his mind: winning. He had come close a few times before; he had already been awarded the title of all-America twice. This time it was about not only leading his team, but also becoming the first men?...
Michigan Democrat John Dingell will be a key player in the debate about lowering carbon dioxide emissions--not just on cars, but economy-wide. The new chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dingell comes from a state congenitally opposed to any measure that could pinch the auto industry. Democrats hope to spin that in their favor, arguing that any climate-change legislation that gets through his committee will have the legitimacy of having cleared a high...
...Given the crowded field, Texas Republicans would be better served by keeping their powder dry until March or later, Masset says. For the last 30 years, Republicans have followed a somewhat orderly succession process in picking their nominee, but this year's race is wide open. The last time there was an open race, Texas played a significant role that paid off later for the state's conservatives. In 1976, after a string of losses by challenger Ronald Reagan to President Gerald Ford, Texas gave Reagan a big win, making the race very close and setting up Reagan...
...Secretary of State is not about to embrace Hamas either. However, if she wants to get something going between the Israelis and Palestinians, Rice will have to figure out a way to deal with Hamas - without explicitly dealing with Hamas. As it is, she intends to conduct wide-ranging talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (with whom Israel will speak) and last week had Jacob Walles, the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, meet with Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official and political independent. (After the Walles-Fayyad meeting, the State Department issued a statement declaring that...
...Premodern Japan,” which was published in 2000, and “The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History,” which came out this year. Kurashige said the University’s decision runs counter to the nation-wide trend of enhancing college programs in pre-modern Japanese studies. “If Harvard is phasing out this sort of program, it’ll send a message to a whole lot of other universities that the study of pre-modern Japanese history is not important...