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Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan has been called Michael Chang with power?in the tennis world that's something akin to being called a glider with a jet engine. The comparison might have more to do with the scarcity of Asians among the top tier of professional men's tennis than anything else, but Srichaphan is rapidly ascending higher rungs of the ladder. The 23-year-old Thai shocked the tennis world at Wimbledon when he unseated former champion Andre Agassi, then continued a sizzling streak by winning his first atp (Association of TennisProfessionals) title in August and defeating world number...
...Professor of Latin and Greek Richard F. Thomas to imply that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s criticism of Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson is akin to a McCarthy-era witch hunt is both inaccurate and insulting (Letters, “Dershowitz Devises One-Sided Debate,” Sept. 27). Thomas ignores a key distinction: Dershowitz has proposed a debate between tenured equals in an academic forum, whereas the McCarthy investigations were inherently unequal and backed up by the coercive power...
...separate board of specially trained individuals to hear these cases and determine the credibility of the individuals involved. Rather than depriving the accused of their rights, this would show the College’s dedication to fairness and equality for all students. Efforts to force Harvard to adopt rules akin to those applied in the criminal justice system must fail. Harvard is not the government; the Ad Board is not sending anyone to jail; and the Bill of Rights is not at stake...
...America has laid claim to the tragedy of Sept. 11, breaking out the flags and revving up the war machine. The immigration system has become more strict—as though foreigners are more akin to terrorists than to normal people. The division between terrorist and victim, of course, has nothing to do with nationality. Those killed in the towers were people going about their work; those who killed them were engaged in unfathomable violence and destruction...
...realists," the best way to get rid of Saddam would be to reassemble (politically, if not militarily) something akin to the 1991 Gulf War coalition and the appropriate U.N. resolutions triggering military action as a consequence of Iraq defying the inspection regime. But under present circumstances that may be wishful thinking. And their own doctrine suggests the hawks will respond by insisting that America prepare to do the job, and quickly, with or without international endorsement...