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...collaboration came in May, when five of the experts joined TIME's editors for lunch and worked through the list. "The rules were simple," explains Phil. "Every name got a number: 1 for Must Do, 2 for Maybe, and 3 for No Way. I thought our guests would balk at rating their colleagues so crassly, but they played the game enthusiastically, perhaps because as academics and research funders they are skilled at recognizing talent and used to comparing diverse fields...
...took two Northeastern miscues to bring Harvard's first run across. Pena dropped a Javy Lopez fly ball to open the bottom of the fifth, an error that landed Lopez on second base. He later trotted home from third on a balk by Burns to break the shutout...
...past week. That grueling schedule, combined with the four-hour bus ride north to Burlington to the Catamounts' (17-10, 5-7 America East) Centennial Field, may well have hurt Harvard's sharpness and contributed to the team's generally sloppy play, which included five errors, ten walks, a balk, and six unearned runs...
...forbid—it would have jurisdiction over Americans, just like everyone else. If we hold ourselves above international law, can we honestly claim to be acting on behalf of justice by using coercive tactics to force another nation to comply with a court system at which we would balk? The ICC would only try criminals when domestic courts did not. On the other hand, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia enjoys primacy of jurisdiction, superceding domestic legal structures. We cannot find adequate cause to support a court system that will work in concert with domestic courts...
...witnesses are intimidated into silence. But dozens of interviews by Time with investigators, traffickers and women freed from bondage paint a harsh picture of medieval abuse and cruelty: during off hours women are kept in cellars, sleeping on the floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought this was possible. These people are animals," she said. One Albanian gang branded its women with tattoos to prevent them from being stolen.Lately...