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...Regardless of the outcome for the Stein and Biglin cups, both squads appear ready to dig in for a competitive spring season. Like his heavyweight counterpart, Barchick expressed excitement at the chance to break in the Charles, even if spring warmth remains elusive...
Barack Obama has declared a goal of a world free of nuclear weapons. But moving toward zero is going to be difficult, even with the U.S. President's having agreed with his Russian counterpart to restart nuclear-disarmament negotiations, and specifically to try to replace the 1992 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). The goal of any arms treaty would seem simple enough: reduce the number of weapons. But the dirty little secret about nuclear weapons is that the fewer of them you have, the more difficult it becomes to get rid of them. Big arsenals are inherently more stable than...
...save. PRINCETON 1, HARVARD 0 Despite an excellent outing by Brown, the Crimson couldn’t muster up more than one hit and failed to keep Princeton from scoring in a pivotal fifth inning. Brown started the game strong, striking out seven in the first four innings. Her counterpart, Tigers sophomore Michelle Tolfa, managed to strike out only one and walked five for the game. It was the fifth inning that put Harvard behind for good. Lettire singled to Vertovez and an error by Krysiak allowed Princeton to put runners on first and third. The Tigers’ Brittney...
...potential Iranian threat. Moscow is vehemently opposed to the shield, and Obama has indicated that he may not press ahead with deploying a system that has yet to prove its effectiveness despite years of testing. And in his efforts to "reset" relations with Moscow, President Obama told his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday that "spheres of influence" was no longer a useful concept...
...struggles of the human experience. Pilch seems to suggest that rehabilitation is an experience akin to religious purgation, or even experience in combat, referring to the time before and after as “civilian life.” Jerzy’s addiction even finds a human counterpart in the form of his obsession with the mysterious poet Alberta Lulaj, “the girl in a yellow dress.” Pilch’s memoir-like style blends black comedy, amateur psychology, and homage to Homeric epithet, like “Don Juan the Rib, in civilian...