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...Crimson (5-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy) remains tied with Yale for third place in the Ivy League hunt, one game behind Dartmouth and Cornell. A loss to the Quakers (2-6,2-3) today, and next Saturday's clash with the Elis will be little more than a battle for pride...
...didn't claim that women were morally superior. But they had been at the receiving end of prejudice long enough, we thought, to empathize with the underdog of either sex. Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering. We imagined women storming male strongholds and, once inside, becoming change agents, role models, whistle-blowers. The hand that rocks the cradle was sure to rock the boat...
...dropping out, slowing down, starting over, going private -- all are options entertained by a generation that views its yuppie predecessors with alarm. The next generation of parents may be less likely to argue over who has to leave work early to pick up the kids and more likely to clash over who gets to take parental leave...
...similarity between the Ottoman and Soviet empires is more than a matter of geography. For nearly 300 years the Turks were in almost constant conflict with the great powers of Europe. That struggle, like the cold war, involved a clash not just of political ambitions but also of creeds. Much as the Soviet Union has embodied a communist ideology committed to world revolution, Ottoman Turkey posed to Christian Europe the challenge of militant Islam...
Religion offers one obvious explanation for the bloody clash. Muslims call the Temple Mount al-Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary. It is home to both the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque and is Islam's third holiest site after Mecca and Medina. To Jews, it is the sacred spot where Solomon's Temple and later the Second Temple once stood. The adjacent Western Wall, a retaining wall from the Second Temple, is the holiest site in Judaism...