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...violate these boundaries, whether for good or ill, are violating U.S. sovereignty and essentially flaunting our laws. This might not seem important to the average Mexican immigrant, who just wants to provide for his family, but it is important philosophically. Mexicans have no legitimate reason to feel outraged and claim that the U.S. is violating their rights because they themselves have no right to violate U.S. sovereignty...
...intercollegiate No. 10 Lauren Polonich in four games, 9-2, 9-5, 7-9, 9-5. Lorentzen dropped her first game to intercollegiate No. 8 Larissa Stephenson, 9-3, but won the next two by identical 9-4 scores to take a 2-1 lead. But Stephenson rallied to claim the fourth and fifth games, 9-6 and 9-2. Harvard got three-game wins from sophomore No. 3 Jen Blumberg—9-7, 9-5, 9-2 over Ashley Clackson—and junior No. 6 Lydia Williams, 9-3, 9-1, 9-3, over Fernanda Rocha. Duboc...
...pulled out the win.”Though Harvard’s top doubles pair of O’Riain and Anderson avenged a defeat in the fall with an 8-2 win against the Bulldogs’ Shadisha Robinson and Caroline Basu, the Crimson was unable to claim the doubles point as Georgia’s No. 2 and No. 3 pairs held off Harvard’s teams to win 8-3 and 8-4, respectively. The Crimson needed to win four out of six singles matches to advance to the next round and Anderson got the team...
...team of sophomores Lindsay Hart, Pangilinan, Bridget O’Connor, and Amanda Slaight, easily beat out the Tigers for first place.The Crimson did slip a little in the next couple events, as it wasn’t able to claim a first-place spot.The Crimson maintained its lead with multiple top finishes and went on to claim first place in the next six events to conclude day one.Hart started the streak with her win in the 100-yard backstroke, which qualified her for the U.S. Senior Nationals with her time. She was followed by Pangilinan, who then...
...Local politics, too, are a complicating factor. Militant Danish Muslims helped push Arabs to join the fray after feeling ignored at home. Some moderate European Muslims claim that the militants sought Arab backing in part as a way of winning financial contributions from wealthy, oil-producing countries. Now that the Danish cartoons have become a cause celebre, local grassroots pressure is building on pro-Western Muslim regimes. Such governments are more susceptible than ever, given how the cartoon controversy arose amid a wave of unprecedented Islamist gains in Middle East elections. While governments look for a way out and protesters...