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...readers reacted to our cover showing a red X crossing out Saddam, which echoed our 1945 X-ed-out cover image of Hitler, by asking, Why? "As horrifying as Saddam's regime was," commented a New Yorker, "this war was not the heroic struggle that was engaged in to defeat Hitler in World War II." A Tokyo reader agreed, saying, "To equate the fall of Saddam with that of Hitler is an insult to the millions slaughtered by the Nazis." But one Canadian put it in vivid sports terms: "Comparing Hussein with Hitler is like comparing a minor-league hockey...
...Crimson’s only home loss came to No. 11 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities—and that 4-3 loss was even narrower than the one-point margin of defeat would indicate...
Despite that defeat, Harvard remains confident going into the weekend on the basis of a “solid year...
Despite the heartbreaking defeat, the result was still far preferable than the recent shellackings that Harvard has endured at B.C.’s hands...
...George W. Bush, he contends, bears an alarming resemblance to the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis. Like Bush, Davis “had dreams of building an empire at gunpoint,” and, “as with Davis, obtaining Bush’s defeat is an urgent matter of national security—and national honor.” In denouncing the president’s foreign policy as imperialistic, Meyerson echoes what has become a common talking point in radical circles...