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Roll out the red carpet for the Harvard Computing Contest Club, which bounced back from its sixth-place finish last year in a major regional competition to win this year’s installment of the contest on Saturday in Rochester...
ISRAEL The Bickering Begins Ariel Sharon called an early general election for January after failing to secure a narrow, right-wing coalition. But the real contest for Prime Minister has already begun. Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon's old nemesis and new Foreign Minister, wasted no time throwing his hat in, saying he wanted the top job because "the country is in dire straits and we have to get it out." His unsubtle implication: Sharon botched it. The two men publicly disagreed on the U.S.-authored "road map" to Israeli-Palestinian peace, which involves an immediate handover of cash owed the Palestinian...
Columbia, which has achieved a winning Ivy record only once since 1971, hopes to avoid becoming the Crimson offense’s latest victim, a task that may be easier said than done. The Lions have struggled defensively all year, allowing 34 points per contest during their current six-game losing streak. Last week, Yale quarterback Jeff Mroz had a career game against them, slinging for 306 yards and four touchdowns in a dominant 35-7 Bulldog triumph. On the year, opponents have torched the Columbia defense for 418 yards a game, dominating the submissive Lions both...
Like many of their competitors, Koski-Karell and Brown have been brewing for some time—a year, by their count. Koski-Karell and Brown were planning on concocting a brew anyway, and the contest happens to coincide with their brewing schedule. The timing, though, may not have been completely flawless. “In a perfect world, it would carbonate for another month,” Koski-Karell says. “Two weeks is kind of the minimum for the kind of work we like to do.” Koski-Karell, Brown and Morange make...
...Although most of Washington's European and Arab allies fear the consequences of a war will be more dangerous than any peril represented by Saddam Hussein, they could not contest the Bush Administration's insistence that Saddam's continued defiance of UN disarmament demands is intolerable. Although the President has been unable to win significant international support for his regime change policy, he has succeeded in forging an international consensus behind an ultimatum, backed by a threat of force, demanding that Baghdad surrender its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves the question of war or peace principally in the hands...