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...matter that the Bruins earned a spot in the national championship game? Because just under a month ago, UCLA sent a promising Crimson squad home for the winter with a sound 3-0 defeat in the second round of the tournament. Harvard had entered the postseason as the highest-scoring team in the country and, after a gritty win over Binghamton at home in the opening round, looked like it might have the promise...
...cope with terminology about the war. It’s an issue consistently debated since 2003, as the administration and compliant news agencies had worked together to shape the country’s various perceptions of the conflict. This past week, in the wake of a decisive electoral defeat and the removal of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the beleaguered president took another blow as a few major news organizations began to shift their description of the conflict to “civil...
...eminent diplomat who had postings in Washington, Geneva, New York and the Hague. Rae, 58, and Ignatieff were roommates at the University of Toronto, but while Ignatieff went on to academia and writing, Rae dove into politics. As an NDP MP in Ottawa, he was instrumental in the defeat of Conservative prime minister Joe Clark's government in 1979. Rae then switched to provincial politics to lead the Ontario NDP and went on to become premier in 1990 with a surprise snap-election victory over an unpopular Liberal government...
...Ignatieff, a former Harvard professor and political newcomer who has spent almost no time in Canada in the past three decades. Still, Ignatieff appeared to be the kind of ideal candidate the backroom Liberal establishment hungered for as the race began following former prime minister Paul Martin's humiliating defeat at the hands of Conservative leader Stephen Harper. For one thing, it would be impossible for opponents to place Ignatieff anywhere near the sponsorship scandal since he had been living abroad, in the United Kingdom and the U.S., since 1978. As well, Ignatieff's background - son of one of Canada...
...night of November 23, shortly after PSG suffered a resounding 4-2 defeat to Israel's Tel Aviv Hapoel in a pan-European competition, seething PSG fans were allowed - despite the presence of hundreds of police and riot cops - to assemble outside the stadium and stew in their notoriously dangerous juices. Along came Yanniv Hazout, 25, a Paris supporter who had come to the game sporting the colors of his favorite club, Hapoel. With shouts of "kill the Jews", and "the dirty Jew must die," the mob set after the fleeing Hazout. Spotting a lynching in the making, plain-clothes...