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...invasion: the grotesque Palestinian terrorist atrocity on Passover. Thus, early on in the Israeli assault the New York Times reminded us that “[t]here is no moral equivalence between the indefensible evil of suicide bombings and Israel’s military actions to defeat terror,” somehow forgetting to ask how proportionality and institutional capacity for oppression bear on such considerations. More crucially, it forgot to ask whether the ongoing siege is simply an “action to defeat terrorism.” The systematic nature of the savage assault suggest other explanations...
With sophomore catcher Mickey Kropf standing on second base in the top of the ninth inning, the Harvard baseball team was 180 feet from a tie ball game. It was also three outs from defeat...
...column by Jason L. Steorts ’01-’03 (“Picking on Pickering,” March 22). Steorts’ argument that Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) is justified in his public threats of retaliation for Judge Charles Pickering’s defeat holds an embarrassingly low expectation of our leaders...
...Crimson (4-4, 0-2 Ivy) never led in its 8-6 defeat at Penn (4-5, 2-2) yesterday, but never trailed by more than two goals. Junior Katie Shaughnessy and senior Heather Gotha led Harvard with two goals each and sophomore goalkeeper Laura Mancini made three of her six saves late in the game to keep the Crimson within striking distance...
...second narrow defeat that Harvard had suffered in as many Ivy games this year, having fallen by one goal to No. 12 Yale in its Ivy opener one week earlier. The 9-8 nailbiter marked the fifth straight year that Harvard had lost to the Elis by exactly one goal...