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...weight classes.All four qualified for the national championships in two weeks. Each wrestler now has his sights set on the national title, for which this tournament had been a warm-up.The EIWA sends the top four wrestlers in each weight class to the NCAA Championships with an additional seven wild card slots, making a total of 47 wrestlers who qualify from the conference.“All four of us are all capable of coming home with the national championship,” said tri-captain Max Meltzer, who finished third at 141 lb. despite suffering a tough first-round upset...
...want something in return: a softer U.S. line on Syrian involvement in Lebanon and more pressure on Israel to give back occupied land in the Golan Heights. "One million refugees is a huge number," says Redwan Ziadeh, director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. "It is a card that Syria can play with...
Damascus may not have that card for long. Internally, the refugee issue poses long-term dilemmas for the Baathist regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The presence of so many needy Iraqis has exposed the government's failure to make economic reforms. The Syrian government--dominated by a secular core of Alawite Muslims who rule a country that is 74% Sunni Muslim--may have to stop the influx as a measure of self-preservation. Assad is particularly concerned about extremists re-entering the country from Iraq, according to Syrian security analysts. "We used to call them the Afghan Arabs...
...joke. Showing its age more like vinegar than a fine wine, Harvard’s portal site is cumbersome, irrelevant, and dated. It’s no wonder that the only time many College students log on to my.harvard is when they’re forced to on study card day. My.harvard’s woes begin with its near obsolescence. It cannot, for instance, take complete advantage of new syndication tools to gather customized, pertinent information for Harvard undergrads. This leaves the determination of much of my.harvard’s content to the staff of Harvard?...
Until now, the only "green" news coming out of the prestige beauty business was about shades of eye shadow. When you consider the resources used to deliver a prettily packaged, fragrant little moisturizer or lipstick, it's no wonder that the industry's environmental report card has been less than stellar. "The ecological footprint left behind by the manufacturing and distribution of cosmetics and fragrances has been dismal," says Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Whatever the cosmetics industry is doing to reduce its environmental impact is welcome...