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...Senate vote to ban human cloning nears, University officials are stepping up efforts to defeat the bill...
...three doubles matches. First, Bears teammates Chris Drake and Justin Natale upended the No. 1 Harvard team of junior David Lingman and freshman Jonathan Chu, 8-5. The Crimson’s solid No. 2 duo, Lee and sophomore Chris Chiou, knotted things up with their 8-4 defeat of Nick Malone and Adil Shamasdin. Brown clinched the point at the No. 3 match, as Brown’s James Cerratani and Nick Goldberg handled Snyder and sophomore Mark Riddell...
...other hand, a look at the day planners of their Washington lobbyists suggests that as soon as these same executives step out of the public eye, they set loose their minions to undo every piece of environmental legislation past, present or future. Ford contributed heavily to the effort to defeat legislation mandating better gas mileage, and Southern has led the charge to weaken air pollution regulations for utilities. So, what's the true color of corporate America: green or brown...
...Harvard wants any more motivation, it only has to look one year in the past, when Yale was the only Ivy team to defeat the Crimson. In that match, held in New Haven, the Elis also won the doubles point before Berke put away the match with a win over...
Unsavory characters as they are, the warlords have often served U.S. interests. But they are a slippery bunch. From the American perspective, the warlords fought bravely against the Soviets from 1979 to 1989 but then went astray following the Soviet defeat. From the American perspective, the warlords fought bravely against the Taliban, but now that the Taliban has been ostensibly defeated, it is unlikely that the warlords will turn in their tanks and rocket launchers for desk jobs...