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Unwilling to yield, however, Harvard controlled the offensive side for the rest of the contest. The effort bore fruit when Eynon came through again for the Crimson with a second assist with 5:15 left...
Unfortunately, the lifting of the nuclear threat in the 1990s will continue to create opportunities for mischief among some nationalist ideologues and local despots. In the decades ahead, the major powers will ignore most petty tyrants and the brutal but small-bore wars that they foment -- unless they seriously endanger their neighbors or threaten their own people with genocide. When that occurs, the United Nations will, in most cases, authorize joint armed intervention. When it does not, the U.S. and other states that share its views will act on their...
...Fourth Wall radically departs from Gurney's typical romantic comedy. Straying from the genre which bore such successes as The Dining Room and Love Letters, Gurney ventures into the world of the postmodern...
Denovo was shot dead by an officer who said she lunged at him with a machete when she was cornered in the chancellor's residence. A note found inside her duffel bag bore the message, "We are willing to die for this land...
Within the cave Greenhut found 12 ossuaries, or bone boxes, dating to the 1st century. Six of the limestone containers had been disturbed by grave robbers. But one of the intact ossuaries bore the inscription "Yehosef bar Qayafa," or Joseph, son of Caiaphas, and included the remains of a woman, a man of about 60 and four children. The outside of the ossuary is decorated in a rare and intricate pattern of concentric circles and rosettes, perhaps befitting a priest's tomb. After almost 2,000 years, however, it is impossible to know for sure...