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...ministries out of 68, which is not seizing the government. You wrote that the President has stalled "[the Prime Minister's] negotiations to end a civil war with the Tigers," but the negotiations had already stalled in April 2003. You wrote that the President decided "unilaterally to add another year to her term." This was not a unilateral decision?the constitution of Sri Lanka says that the President's term shall be six years. You wrote that "the imf delayed an $80 million aid tranche after the recent turmoil." The imf stalled payment of this tranche because of mismanagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Take the captain of the Harvard football team. Add four years as a starter and team-leader in tackles, including 96 tackles, 11 sacks, 21 tackles for lost yardage, two forced fumbles and five pass breakups in his senior year alone...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Balestracci Sets Sights on Pro Career | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...also quick to add that she had no objections to 24-hour UKA as it had “no overwhelmingly negative consequences...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Houses To Adopt Universal Access | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...heard this year. The simple piano playing modulating broken chords in the background with the soft, hesitant voice is incomparable. When drums come in and the piano becomes more active, the sadness reaches a climax, then fades to a soft end. There is nothing I would add or take away from the 14-track album and that is the highest praise I can give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...carries the same spirit into these declamations also. In the second place, the utterances themselves cannot but show what more or less esteemed Americans value for philosophical purposes. The list of topics is short. When one has named, "for God, for Country, and for Yale" there is little to add to this greatest of anti-climaxes, except perhaps "for virtue". Baccalaureat speakers are at their best in linking mid-Victorian triteness with modern Babbitry, in combining Puritanical platitudes with the poverty of provincialism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS FROM THE WISE | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

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