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...this way: Brown hasn't beaten Harvard since 1992 and even then it was only by six points...
...Western diplomat put it, 'being the best demagogue around, he kept anybody else from running it either.' Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elizabethville, hauled out and savagely beaten by Katangese soldiers, then driven off to jail, his hands bound behind his back with rope. Most Congo experts are convinced that the Katangese [secessionists], aware that Lumumba was gaining followers even while in prison, shot him the very next morning." --Time...
Despite reminders of the tensions everywhere, the island is trying to move forward. At the shop of Chin Ho Li, shell casings originally containing propaganda are beaten and snipped into kitchen knives before your eyes - perfect souvenirs. Swords into ploughshares, anyone...
...Prime Minister Ehud Barak's statement Thursday that a peace agreement was unlikely before Israelis go to the polls on February 6 was a masterful understatement. Right now, opinion polls show that whether or not Barak cuts a new deal, he'll be comfortably beaten by arch-hawk Ariel Sharon on election day - and that would reduce any new deal to no more than a chronicle of what might have been. Because while Barak has thus far failed to tempt Arafat to accept 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, as well as a patchwork of Jerusalem...
...caught the last five minutes of Northeastern's 3-0 loss at Brown on Saturday. It was a sad sight to see a team who had beaten the nation's top-ranked team just nine days before struggle like it did. When Brown scored its third goal with a minute left, one Husky whacked her stick against the side of the net in anguish, and the rest of the team was too jaded to care that much...