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...more worthwhile positions from the mouths of my peers daily that I do not think warrant the attention of The Crimson, and yet we do not read them in its pages. Instead, we read these words which act only to undermine the efforts of other Asians who wish to defeat stereotypes constructively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Looking defeat in the face

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cricket as the Cure for a National Depression | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...disastrous showing left India having to bat a second time - if the team that bats second can't come within 150 runs of its opponent's first innings, it can be asked to bat again. Being forced to "follow on" is usually a prelude to a humiliating defeat. And that's how the Indian press were calling it at the end of Day 2 in Calcutta. At best, they hoped, India could avoid the ultimate humiliation of an innings defeat (when the team that bats second fails over two innings to pass the score its rival registered in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cricket as the Cure for a National Depression | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...corruption in government, but they've also learned to accept it as a fact of life. But what still gets people very angry is when guns and graft come together. That's viewed as venality that compromises national security. The late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi suffered a humiliating electoral defeat in 1989 after he was accused of accepting kickbacks from a howitzer deal with Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors. The Bofors scandal still haunts the Congress Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Plucky Dot-Com Changed India's Political Landscape | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

Last year in Southbend the Crimson trailed 10-8 but came back with four unanswered goals to defeat the Irish...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Soars Past Eagles | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

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