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Harvard coach John Kerr was in a bind. So he looked for outside help and found a rookie and a veteran to fill the void...
...same logic which would render NATO’s Kosovo intervention illegal merely because it was not sanctioned by the Security Council (it was opposed by Russia and China) should not in any way bind America and its allies’ decisions to intervene abroad. When American values and interests are at stake, the United States cannot afford to be shackled by an imagined moral authority that the U.N. no longer deserves...
...help the poor. Democrats racked up points in the '90s by embracing President Clinton's call to "end welfare as we know it." In February, the House passed a bill that was more austere than the Senate committee's version. But both parties are in a bit of a bind. Republicans don't want to come across as Scrooges, and Democrats don't want to look as if they are soft on welfare--a tricky position for both in an election year. --By Matthew Cooper
...militants have not gone down easily. In those sweeps, 11 Saudi security officials have died. The four members of an al-Qaeda unit, cornered in a house in the al-Jouf region, chose to bind themselves together and blow themselves up with hand grenades rather than get caught. In a number of raids, suspects managed to get away: at least two broke out of a safe house under surveillance, 10 escaped from another hideaway when police approached, and seven slipped through a police cordon during a five-hour gun battle in Riyadh. One arrest suggested al-Qaeda may have penetrated...
College policies reflected these fundamental values. The principle that all student organizations must be open to all students was Archie’s invention. Choral groups and athletic teams, but certainly not social clubs, were sanctioned exceptions. The physicality of music and sports bind these two naturally, but it also seems to me that Archie fostered the flourishing of student musical performance at Harvard for the same reasons that athletics have sometimes been so respected, for the lessons taught about teamwork and leadership...