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...Dershowitz said he called the student group’s spokesperson to confirm that Hampshire had divested from Israel, and that he did not want to launch a campaign to stop donations to the college unless the college had divested. The divestment debate carries particular weight at the Amherst, Mass. college, as it was the first U.S. college to divest from South Africa in 1977. Leaders of the student group have accused Dershowitz—whose son attended Hampshire—of threatening them and the college in an act of “academic bullying...
...soldiers so steeped in a national bunker mentality that they no longer value the lives of Palestinian civilians. Moses would cry for his people, who have lost sight of the biblical guideline on proportionate retaliation: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Lowell Klessig, AMHERST JUNCTION...
...Born to Irish immigrants in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Like his father, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman, helping to pay his way through Amherst College, where he played rugby and graduated Phi Betta Kappa in 1982 before earning a law degree at Harvard...
...comes into the match on a high, following its dramatic 1-0 double-overtime victory over the University of Massachusetts on Saturday. Junior Andre Akpan scored the winner in the 103rd minute, sending the Crimson through to the second round.The final result was only half the story from Amherst, MA, though. Strong wind and a hard, slippery playing surface made for a very sloppy game where each team was forced to play hopeful long balls.Yesterday, the team traveled from the cold of Massachusetts to the sun in Florida in preparation for today’s match.The change of scenery should...
...golden goal ended a match that will not only be remembered for its duration, but also for the conditions in which it was played. A temperature well below freezing combined with swirling winds made for a very cold afternoon for the 1,192 in attendance in Amherst, Mass. For the players on both teams, the brutal conditions added the additional obstacle of a rock solid, ice-cold field, described by Crimson coach Jamie Clark as an “ice-skating rink.”“It was the first time in my career where [the players] just...