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...afraid of… a Cold War.” Hopefully Medvedev’s threat relies more on bravado than truth, but this assumption is not a risk worth taking. As the recent South Ossetian conflict indicates, Russia is willing to use force to assert its power in the region...
...Freshman Nico Weiler continued to assert his place among the league’s top pole-vaulters, taking second with a jump of 5.10 meters...
...young boy, confused and overwhelmed by his own sexuality. Yet critics insist that their disgust at Adams’s behavior comes about not as a result of the nature of his sexual preferences, but because of his choice to lie about his behavior. This claim is preposterous. To assert that the Sam Adams scandal exists independently of his homosexuality is either patently duplicitous or laughably na?...
...career, Weintraub has ample opportunity to grow as a leader and as a difference-maker for Harvard. The setter hopes that the team can evolve in that time as well. With the Crimson sitting at .500 for the season, Weintraub sees his squad at a crossroads, primed to assert itself in the EIVA...
...outsider on three counts: in matters of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional [his] parents might have hoped for.” Confronted by the conflict between his attempt to assert himself and the attempts of others who wanted to shape him into something else, Fani-Kayode used photography to defend his individuality. “Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989)”, which catalogues Fani-Kayode’s photography from 1983 until his AIDS-related death in 1989, serves...