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...rivalry between the Harvard men’s tennis team and Fresno St. is so bitter that the two squads are willing to continue it a week later and 2,000 miles away...
Although they have no love for Saddam, no Arab government, with the exception of Kuwait's ruling Al Sabah family, with its bitter memories of Iraq's 1990 invasion of their country, supports the Bush administration's war against Iraq. That includes regimes with long-standing strategic relations with the U.S., like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Sure, these governments are discreetly helping with the U.S. military effort. But they are doing so only grudgingly, under American pressure...
...Aaron become the co-first place finishers in the first ever 40-40 Club Challenge. Ben could have easily finished first, but instead he waits for Aaron to catch up so they can finish together. It reminds me of a cheesy sports movie where two bitter rivals give it all they have until the very end, and just when one of the guys—usually the good-hearted one—is pulling ahead and you think he is going to win, he turns around and waits for the other guy, who has a pebble in his shoe...
...relevant story but told through a man who morphs from insufferably confident hawk to insufferably righteous dove. Fortunately, Spader has built a career on making creepy soullessness intriguing. Ellsberg compares the quagmire to quicksand: it's the stalest cliche imaginable, yet Spader sells it with his bitter, weary delivery. Later, after a fact-finding trip to the front line, he says he learned "we couldn't win unless ..." He trails off, and in that moment you see his brashness silently shatter. There is no "unless...
HUCTW, however, was not involved in last spring’s negotiations, which sprang from the most bitter labor dispute in recent Harvard history—the three-week long Mass. Hall sit-in by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in spring...