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Amid all the uncertainty, one thing is more sure: senior tailback Clifton Dawson. Dawson stands on the brink of history, with the chance to become to first offensive player in league history to be named first-team all-Ivy for four straight years. He is on pace to break the all-time league mark for rushing yards—with 4,715 yards, he is 1,087 yards off the mark—and touchdowns, established by Brown’s Nick Hartigan last season. If Dawson gets 1,000 yards on the ground, he will become just the eighth...
...sectarian forces but can only watch in despair. In private conversations even politicians with no pretensions of secularism occasionally wish for a unifying leader. Some months ago, Sunni leader Saleh al-Mutlak and I chatted about the kind of leadership it would take to pull Iraq back from the brink. We agreed that there were no giants on the political landscape, and he shook his head dolefully. "Not only that," he said, sighing, "but the political system we have created makes it impossible for such a figure to emerge." Politicians, he said, have discovered that the easiest...
...While the world has been fixed on the crisis in Israel and Lebanon these past few weeks, Iraq has reached the brink of a "very grave occurrence," an all-out civil war between Sunnis and Shi'ites that could quickly spread to neighboring countries. The Iraqi-led military push to pacify Baghdad, Operation Forward Together, has run into fierce resistance from the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias. The death toll-an average of 100 per day-is at least double the rate of casualties in Lebanon. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, gave a ridiculously upbeat speech...
There's hope for Landis lovers inspired by his back-from-the brink tale: his guilt is far from established, and the case has other twists ahead. "It's going to be more complicated and longer than anybody thinks," says Gérard Dine, president of the Biotechnological Institute in Troyes, France, and an antidoping consultant to French and international sporting authorities. Phonak, the Swiss sponsor of Landis' cycling team, revealed last week that on the day of Landis' miraculous comeback, an abnormally high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was found in his urine. (Testosterone is a muscle-building anabolic steroid...
...Preparedness Pays Off Re "Sharing the Load" [July 10], on the progress made in providing assistance to Africa since last year's G-8 summit: When large populations are brought to the brink of crisis, international aid interventions are hugely expensive and logistically complicated. The solution is to give people the ability to be resilient in the event of natural disasters or armed conflicts. Small, steady cash transfers enable poor families to eat better and invest in equipment that will help them be more productive. Run entirely by local staff and villagers, the low volume of funds involved reduces...