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...BITTER EXIT...
...winning a World Series, I still have enough reverence for the game to know that it at least deserves a slap on the back. I also reflected: Perhaps this is the end of an era for Boston, an end to the persecution complex, to the insufferable masochism, to the bitter winter despair that never abates come April...
...looks like a slow-motion train wreck," said Barbara Slavin, author of a new book, Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. "Neither side is willing to back down and the chances for conflict are growing over the nuclear program and Iran's support for U.S. adversaries in the Middle East...
...presidential reelection bid in 2009, Ahmadinejad is now seeking a greater leadership role in nuclear decision-making, which is controlled by the regime's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Last week, Ahmadinejad accepted the resignation of Ali Larijani, the pragmatic conservative chief negotiator who is a bitter political rival to the President. Although all Iranian leaders defend their right to uranium-enrichment technology for purposes of producing nuclear energy, Larijani believes it is in Iran's national interests to reach an understanding with the West. But on at least two occasions, Ahmadinejad has publicly slapped down Larijani's conciliatory efforts...
That fateful third overtime period however, will leave a bitter taste in Harvard’s mouths over the next few days...