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...Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose boyish, bespectacled appearance soon earned him the tag kortbroeke, or short-pants. Van Schalkwyk has desperately tried to rub out the lingering image of the old National Party, but he has its history of hatred and oppression to contend with. His proposal of marriage to the A.N.C. could be a political kiss of death - "I wish them [the N.N.P. and the A.N.C.] a merry Christmas," says Suzman, "because it will probably be their first and last together...
Senior Eric LaHaie, another football carryover, and an incoming freshman, should contend in the pentathlon...
With talent across the board on the track and enough strength in field, Harvard can contend for the team title at Heps provided the team stays healthy. But all was good as of yesterday...
...close—as part of the same blocking group, both men’s captains and both women’s captains live in the same entryway. It seems fitting, then, that both are essentially locks to be chasing national titles this season and both will have to contend with strong Trinity teams in pursuit of that goal...
...Even so, the humanitarians, contend, there are rules of war, and they want to investigate whether those rules may have been broken. Article 42 of the Geneva Convention states that "the use of weapons against prisoners of war, especially against those who are escaping or attempting to escape, shall constitute an extreme measure, which shall always be preceded by warnings appropriate to the circumstances." According to most accounts of the circumstances, many of the prisoners were trying to kill their captors. Human rights advocates responding to the events at Qalai Janghi also point to a 1977 protocol to the Geneva...