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...schedules to pursue other opportunities at Harvard.” Others are injured. Some, like Witt, cannot accustom themselves to the fact that they are putting in a Division I level of commitment while receiving paltry payoffs in appreciation and success. In this sense, Harvard athletics seems to be caught in a no-man’s-land between the day to day reality of extreme competition and an official policy of amateurism. The question is, what happens to the casualties—the recruited athletes who can’t adjust to living in between...
...Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, has found herself in the crosshairs of a potential scandal following an April 19 Congressional Quarterly story alleging Harman was caught on a 2005 or 2006 NSA wiretap offering to lobby the Justice Department to soft-pedal charges against two AIPAC officials. In exchange, Harman allegedly sought a suspected Israeli agent's help in encouraging Nancy Pelosi - then the House minority leader - to appoint Harman as House Intelligence Committee chair after the 2006 elections...
...modern Latin American countries got locked in a cycle that left their economies underdeveloped: "By the middle of the nineteenth century, servicing of foreign debt absorbed almost 40 percent of Brazil's budget, and every country was caught in the same trap. Railroads formed another decisive part of the cage of dependency ... Most of the loans were for financing railroads to bring minerals and foodstuffs to export terminals. The tracks were laid not to connect internal areas one another, but to connect production centers with ports ... thus railroads, so often hailed as forerunners of progress, were an impediment...
...utterings. On April 6, Royal asked an audience in Senegal's capital Dakar to pardon France for a controversial speech the president gave there shortly after his election in 2007. In the speech, Sarkozy said "the African man has not sufficiently entered history" as a result of becoming caught in an "eternal re-starting of time by the endless repetition of the same movements and words...
...Lankan government puts the figure at around 70,000. "We cannot give an exact figure, it is very difficult," Hulugalle says. The U.N. has warned that conditions are precarious within the zone, with civilians running short on safe drinking water and food, and getting caught in the crossfire...