Word: claime
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...Pennsylvania, U.S. Your account of the alleged massacre and ensuing cover-up at Haditha was the latest appalling example of the plague this war has become. Like the Vietnam War, it seems to taint the reputation and humanity of all it touches and belies what's left of any claim to a just war. We're a long way from the heroism of the Marines at Iwo Jima. Michael Burns Elkton, Maryland, U.S. Questioning the War I commend time for the forum of views on the Iraq war, "Was It Worth It?" [March 27]. While the question may not have...
...Jaafari's Sunni detractors complain that he refused to rein in Shi'ite militias terrorizing their communities, while the Kurds don't like the fact that he refused to back their territorial claim on the mixed oil-rich city of Kirkuk. But these positions were not personal whims of Jaafari's so much as a reflection of the demands of his base in the majority Shi'ite community. And by nixing Jaafari, the dominant Shi'ite bloc will simply get to nominate another candidate under pressure from his political base...
...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...
...can—no surprises here—buy more Erlenmayer flasks than the minimum $10 donation. If a wealthier Harvard is objectively a good thing, then so is encouraging seniors who can afford it to donate proportional to their means. But no proponent of Senior Gift can legitimately claim that the withholding of a single $10 donation will materially hurt Harvard. And no detractor can feign great enough financial distress to justify their refusal to plunk down the cash equivalent of a beer and a burrito. Harvard subsidizes everyone’s yearly tuition at least to the tune...
...streak end in the most dramatic of ways, as Brown nipped the Crimson by a four-foot margin—the equivalent of one seat. The race stayed tight from start to finish, with the Bears’ early six-seat lead the largest either team would claim throughout. Brown broke out to that six-seat margin within the race’s first 20 strokes, and Harvard remained six seats back throughout the first 500 meters. “We expected them to start pretty quickly,” Henderson said. “But we sort of expected...