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...newly empowered Faculty may take steps to derail the review, now into its third year, in what would be a major defeat for Summers, who played an integral role in the shaping of the report on general education released this month...
...validation of his Chechen policies, as justification of the indiscriminate use of force as a solution to difficult problems. Putin’s celebration would be the rough equivalent of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon putting a hellfire missile through Mahmoud Abbas’s window, celebrating the defeat of Palestinian terrorism, and ignoring Hamas. While the moderate, democratically elected Chechen leader Maskhadov lies dead, other, more radical Islamic fundamentalist fighters are still at large. In particular, Shamil Basayef, the mastermind of the horrific Moscow theater and Beslan hostage takings, runs free. In fact, Basayef may well feel that...
Though the team knew it would be unable to defeat Hartwick as the game wore on, it continued to play hard until the final minutes...
...RETIRED. GARRY KASPAROV, 42, the world's top-ranked chess player since winning his first championship in 1985; in Moscow. A fierce, innovative competitor, Kasparov's victories were so numerous that his few losses were better known-like his 1997 defeat by a 1.2-ton IBM computer, Deeper Blue. "I am a man of big goals," the Russian grand master said upon his retirement, "but I no longer see any real goal in the world of chess." An outspoken opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kasparov said he would now spend more time focusing on politics...
...speech’s main point. I did not argue that we should change the way we live in order to fight the war on terror. On the contrary, as I said in my speech, “The President has declared that our war aim is to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life as a free and open society...