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...these organizations compete for the attention of female undergraduates, time constraints often make it impossible for a student to commit to more than one effort. As a result, while amazing events and opportunites allow women to thrive on campus, many females are too focused on the efforts of their own group to utilize the opportunities offered by other organizations. As former ABHW president Allana N. Jackson ’03 explained to The Crimson last year, “sometimes black women or minority women in general feel like they are asked to make a choice between being a feminist...
...three panelists said the U.N. Security Council and U.S. government failed to intervene because they did not want to commit troops to a dangerous conflict in Africa...
...mobile-phone bomb is a simple but effective way to commit mass murder from a distance. The tactic worked 10 times during the Thursday-morning rush hour in Madrid as powerful explosives ripped open carriages, killing some 200 commuters and wounding more than 1,500 others. Like the 9/11 attacks, the Madrid bombings were impeccably timed to kill ordinary people on their way to work, and both left unforgettable tableaux of pain and destruction, the kind terrorists regard as spectacular. Not all the bombs took lives, though. Two similar devices were destroyed by police in controlled explosions. And thanks...
...changed a great deal. Since the arrest of most of ETA's top tier in a series of joint counterterrorist operations by France and Spain over the past decade, control may have passed to a generation of younger leaders who may be radical--or just plain inexperienced--enough to commit an atrocity like last week's train attacks in Madrid. A report on trends in terrorism published in December 2002 by the Council of the European Union, the E.U.'s ministerial-level policymaking body, cites the alarming rise within ETA of younger men from inside the culture of kale borroka...
...recruits who want to become pilots, which eliminates most players over 6 ft. 8 in. (The actual measure is sitting height, which allows for some variation; the team's tallest player is 6 ft. 9 in.--smaller than most college big men.) The school must also persuade athletes to commit five years of postgraduate life to the military--not exactly a lure to players with dreams of a pro career. Yet coach Joe Scott's patient pass-and-cut offense, a system he learned at Princeton as a player and an assistant coach, made up for these handicaps this year...