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...early March, 38 members of the U.S. Congress sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton highlighting the fact that Sri Lanka is one of eight “Red Alert?? countries experiencing ongoing or imminent genocide, referencing a ranking produced by the New York-based Genocide Prevention Project. Human Rights Watch had reported that, from early January to the end of February alone, over 2,000 Tamil civilians had been killed and over 7,000 injured. More recently, government forces continue to kill or maim an average of 100 civilians...
...count for anything and there is no playoff system in the Ancient Eight.You’ll notice that the only consistent teams in the Ivies right now are Dartmouth and Columbia, and that’s only because they are equally terrible, although—SPOILER ALERT??if you read my picks you’ll realize that they’re really not.As for the rest of the conference, its best team (Harvard) gets equal billing with one of its worst (Princeton). Yale, which has had some odd losses but is still probably a top-three...
...ineffectual, and the office coffee maker’s concoction was just plain bad. So I sucked it up and headed for Starbucks. It was a dramatic success—even a triumph, to suddenly be so alert??though it was a defeat to be dependent on coffee to function. Who knew an office coffee run could be such a critical part of the morning...
...seem to be settling in quite well with the new national personality. Americans take solace in Fox News Channel’s omnipresent indication of our nation’s “terror alert?? status. Patriotic citizens around the country now raise both the American flag and the orange “high alert?? flag of the Department of Homeland Security. Pundits and anchormen comb through our country’s weak spots and ask the questions that need to be answered, like whether our seaports are safe from oil tankers—which could...
...security officials across the country, “America on Alert?? is more than a tag line on CNN. It’s the new way of life: the Centers of Disease Control are monitoring anthrax outbreaks, armed National Guardsmen are securing airports, fighter jets are flying combat air patrols over major cities and tall buildings have readied for quick evacuation. Vice President Richard Cheney has been moved to a secure undisclosed location...
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