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...fighting. Rather, they end because of outside intervention or, more often, because one side wins. Partition will not stop the sectarian cleansing in mixed areas, but by giving Shi'ites and Sunnis their own regions, it can avoid an outcome in which Iraq's more numerous Shi'ites completely crush the Sunnis...
After winning seven straight games, the Harvard men’s soccer team can clinch its first Ivy League title in 10 years on Saturday with a win over Columbia at Ohiri Field. Last Sunday, Harvard (12-4, 5-1 Ivy League) crushed Dartmouth for its fifth Ivy League victory of the season, putting destiny firmly in the hands of the Crimson. Harvard hosts Columbia (7-7-2, 0-4-2 Ivy) in its final game of the season in good standing to win the league title, which they can do outright with a victory or a Penn loss. Harvard?...
...beleaguered residents of Baghdad, this has become a familiar Green Zone farce. Beholden to the very militias he has vowed to crush, the increasingly hamstrung prime minister has forced U.S. troops guarding the city to don kid gloves when dealing with the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to the radical Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been blamed for much of the sectarian violence that kills an average of 100 Iraqis a day. And there is palpable frustration among U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad that every time they strike against the Mahdi Army, they are publicly...
...give people hope, however deep they buried it? Or did Nagy's fumbling inexperience - coupled with an insecurity in Moscow, still coming to terms with Stalin's death and the revelation by Nikita Khrushchev of his crimes - play into the hands of hard-liners, encourage them to crush dissent, and hence plunge half of a continent into a gloom that would last for another 33 years? Did the U.S., which had appeared to encourage resistance to Soviet rule - but did nothing to help those who resisted - betray Hungary? What about France and Britain, whose harebrained Suez adventure provided Moscow with...
...pernicious practice. "If you're 12, I think you'll understand what's happening," says the author. "But I don't think it will hit you the same way if you're too young for the book." While the book is blunt, it is never sensational: "Men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open," says Lakshmi. And it is less about sex than about coercion and commerce and the eventual triumph of will. At heart, McCormick admits, she is an activist. "I couldn't write this book fast enough," she says, "because I felt such...