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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Harvard men's basketball team washed away the lingering effects of a brutal loss in New Haven with one half of near-flawless play on Saturday night, jumping on Brown early to key a blowout 75-58 win at the Pizzitola Center...
...There is a caveat, though: Democracy may lead to a chaos of false hopes, but what's the alternative? In the past, regional stability, of a sort, was ensured by U.S. support for extravagantly corrupt and brutal regimes. The high-speed, information-age propaganda and savagery of Osama bin Laden has changed all that, as has the careful provision of social services by groups like Hizballah and Hamas. If the status quo is no longer tenable, as was the case in the Palestinian territories, it's far better for Hamas to come to power via the ballot box than...
...Faculty meeting approached, Summers and his staff expected to take a brutal but manageable licking from professors, according to the two sources. But at the end of what amounted to a 90-minute onslaught by the Faculty, Summers appeared more imperiled than ever...
...alleviate the pains and problems of the construction, Harvard has simply told students to “deal with it” and ignored or crushed any opposition. For a school deeply concerned with its image and possessing almost unimaginable financial resources, it seems almost inconceivable that such a brutal and unilateral approach could have been taken to what should have been a relatively simple problem. Harvard has made many mistakes in this debacle, but luckily, time still exists to correct or compensate for them. Here are three proposals for Harvard to consider:First, and most immediately, it can reschedule...
...after Sept. 11, the Bush Administration moved closer to Sharon's zero-tolerance view of Palestinian terrorism. So when a bomber killed 30 people at a Netanya hotel during Passover in 2002, Sharon went all out. He reinvaded the cities of the West Bank with brutal force, using the army's presence to get intelligence on the terrorists and to make arrests.He stepped up construction of a controversial barrier, started by Barak, that cut through the West Bank and walled out the Palestinians. In 2004, Sharon ordered the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and, later, another...