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...game meant considerably more to the seniors on the Princeton squad who failed to defeat the Crimson during their four years, losing the previous two games by a total of three points...
...what could have been the most important game of the year for the Harvard men's soccer team, Princeton clawed its way back from an early deficit to defeat the Crimson 2-1 Saturday afternoon at Ohiri Field...
...passage of the treaty would have been a symbol of the U.S.'s continued moral leadership in a hazardous world, it's important not to overstate the impact of it's defeat. "This thing wasn't going to affect rogue states," a U.S. Navy officer says, "or even nations that pretend to comply." It's a little naive to think a militaristic outsider like North Korea would abandon its mighty efforts to develop nuclear weapons simply because the Senate voted a certain...
...have a goal and obligation--and desire--to portray him as a character [just as I would any other character]...as a man who has this amazing secret that he wants to tell everybody. It's good news, but it's like Cassandra the prophet [whose predictions of defeat for the Trojans in the Trojan War went unheeded]: you're preaching the truth, but no one believes...
Being "only a heartbeat away" from the presidency takes on added significance when the ailing president has suffered two strokes - which is why the election Thursday of Indonesia's new vice president is a lot more than a formality. Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose shock defeat for the presidency in Indonesia's byzantine balloting system Wednesday set off a night of rioting, said she would take the job for "for the sake of the nation." Her path was cleared by an apparent consensus among the political elites that saw the withdrawal of two key rivals, armed forces chief General Wiranto and Akbar...