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...leitmotif of Assad's presidency, which began soon after Syria's humiliating defeat in the 1967 with Israel, has been the battle to recover the strategic Golan Heights. Having failed to achieve that goal through the war of 1973 or the proxy war in Lebanon, Assad opened negotiations first in 1994, and then again last year, in the hope of resolving the issue rather than leaving it to an heir whose grip on power would be a lot more tenuous. The U.S.-brokered talks, however, failed to produce a deal that even Assad could sell the Syrians...
...result; but for the British and their erstwhile subjects cricket is more than just sport - it is a cultural ritual that encapsulates the Kiplingesque virtues of fair play, decency, subordinating one's ego to the greater good, fighting hard but fair for victory and remaining eternally gracious in defeat. And that accounts for the social anguish caused by the international match-fixing scandal currently unfolding in South Africa, on top of similar allegations that surfaced recently in Pakistan, India and Australia. South Africa's captain, Hansie Cronje, supposedly a paragon of the game's finest virtues, has fallen into disgrace...
...over UMass avenged a humiliating 10-3 defeat in last season's opener and, combined with the victory against Brown, a team Harvard lost to a year ago, the early success raised expectations...
...Crimson never truly recovered from the defeat at Yale. Despite repeated strong first-half performances, Harvard could not seem to maintain its momentum over a full 60 minutes...
...Dartmouth senior Jacque Weitzel came alive after halftime, however, scoring seven of her game-high nine goals in the second half to almost single-handedly defeat Harvard in a 15-9 Big Green victory...