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...most inexperienced, Jeff Witt, with all of a baker’s dozen career passing attempts to his name. Brown’s secondary is suspect at best, and it will be up to Witt to exploit it.The game could come down to special teams. Brown sports the Ancient Eight’s best kicker in Steve Morgan. Lady Luck suits up for the Bears this time and Harvard falls by a late field goal.Prediction: Brown 26, Harvard 24 CORNELL (0-1) VS. YALE (0-1)Cornell was my dark horse pick entering this season, but shook my confidence with...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Offering A Lone Voice of Dissent | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Caesarean Section Craze | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...there is some speculation that the Old Guard may try to push him out. But until then, he seems likely to keep challenging the West, stirring things up. He aspires to unite Muslim opinion and make Iran the dominant player in the Middle East, restoring the country to its ancient imperial glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Date With a Dangerous Mind: Iran's President | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...possible that Benedict has misconstrued what Manuel meant about Islam's being spread by the sword. The ancient emperor may have been alluding not to sword's-edge conversion, but merely (if "merely" is the right word) to Islam's early intent to conquer the world, whose inhabitants would eventually come around to the true faith of their own accord. In that case, it?s probably accurate. That was the plan in the first generations after Mohammed, and that may be enough to scare anyone who thinks that it has been sustained since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Forced Argument on Forced Conversions | 9/16/2006 | See Source »

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