Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Alumni Council Voted Again; Not Unanimous (05:36 PM) - A developing story here on the Hanover plain is a June re-vote of the Dartmouth Alumni Council on the proposed constitutional overhaul. Illustrating the disparity between the Council and the Dartmouth community at large, the Council previously voted unanimously in…
Rocketbust (03:54 PM) - Over the years I have directed not a few souls to the dulcet videographic libations of Amanda Congdon, who hosted the two-minutes-per-day Rocketboom program right here. She’s a comely twentysomething; an aspiring actress living in Manhattan (though she now resides…
Additional Soldiers Abducted; Israel Continues to Send Aid (10:57 AM) - Islamist warriors—Hezbollah, this time—have completed a military action against Israel in a cross-border mission to abduct two and kill three Israeli soldiers. The two are now in terrorist hands, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called the raid “an act…
Forty (09:11 AM) - How significant is it that Bush’s poll numbers are recovering?…
U.S. News & World Report: “gun control is a political loser” (08:19 AM) - It really is, isn’t it? It is almost (but only almost) a matter of sorrow that the Democrats have learned not to listen to the anti-gun zealots. After all, doing so made them look plenty silly to people who would…
Lashkar-e-Toiba and Students Islamic Movement of India (08:04 AM) - Get to know the acronym SIMI, reports the Times of India. A non-Islamic nation composed of free people, enriched by free trade, and secured by comity with the Western world, India is now a target for exactly the sort of…
Chinese Spy Cases Increase; Arms Secrets Transferred (08:01 AM) - Popular Mechanics (But doesn’t this seem like the sort of thing that should be on the front page of a newspaper?) reports on a recent spate of cases involving Chinese spies, and concludes that a Chinese arms build-up has been…
Vladimir Putin’s Inimical Interests (07:46 AM) - In the New York Times on Monday, former Russian chess champion and professional supercomputer-slayer Garry Kasparov gives President Bush some advice as he heads into the next “Group of 7” meeting. (“I say ‘Group of 7’ rather than ‘Group of…
Egypt and Israel Share a Red Carpet (07:43 AM) - Your friendly local TigerHawk has the photographic evidence….