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...when Columbia and Fordham refused to cancel their football game until Friday, the day before the scheduled contest, one couldn’t help but feel repulsed. How could the two New York City schools even consider playing on with bodies still being hauled out of the debris across town...
Harvard has decided to follow the lead of most professional and collegiate sports and cancel all of its intercollegiate athletic contests through this weekend in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks in New York and Washington...
...thought long and hard about this issue and have tried as hard as we could to return to normal operations,” Scalise said, “but at this point we find it appropriate to cancel our athletic contests for the coming weekend...
...steer clear even of a formal apology for fear this would open the way to legal action for compensation. Still, some U.S. civil rights groups are pushing for the conference to address the reparations issue, and some African nations hope to persuade the West to cancel Africa's burdensome foreign debt as a means of partially compensating for the impact of slavery and colonialism...
UKRAINE A Papal Call for Reconciliation Despite pleas from Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II to cancel, Pope John Paul II went ahead with a five-day visit to Ukraine. There he ignored Orthodox priests waving banners that read "Orthodoxy or death" and continued his mission to reconcile the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, apologizing in Ukrainian for past "errors" and declaring that "unity and harmony ... is the secret of peace". NORTHERN IRELAND Showdown The British and Irish governments planned intensive negotiations to tackle the latest crisis in the peace process. The reason: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's resignation as First...