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...Colgate net was dislodged after an extended scuffle for several loose rebounds in front of goaltender Mark Dekanich. With Harvard perilously close to punching it in, some of the players seemed to feel that a Raiders player had intentionally shifted the net, which would have been cause for a delay of game penalty.“I think coaches in general kind of see things through rose-colored glasses for themselves sometimes,” Donato said. “But I think it was pretty apparent that the guy pushed the net off.”Another disputed call...
...will only further weaken its hold on the south, especially if a strengthened central government can swoop in and remove inimical SIIC governors. The polls, which will elect legislators as well as governors, cannot be held until the law is passed. Abdul-Medhi's party would benefit from a delay, which would allow local SIIC officials to improve roads, schools and security in their areas...
...however many states become involved in trying to defang Pyongyang and ease the North's eventual integration into the international system, it remains the case that for someone who has long been assumed to hold a weak hand, Kim has played his cards well. Using delay and deceit, always threatening, expressly or by implication, to deploy or sell his nukes, he has wheedled cash, fuel and food aid from the outside and used them to prop up his rule. Nothing, as I say, lasts forever. But the unification that Lee maintains is the "long-cherished desire of the 70 million...
...Balkans tends to spread. It triggered World War I, not to mention a few smaller conflicts in the 1990s. The Kosovo war was a big deal in 1999, when President Bill Clinton instigated a NATO bombing campaign to defend Kosovo's Albanian Muslims and defuse a refugee crisis. Tom DeLay, then the House majority whip, accused Clinton of embroiling the U.S. in a "quagmire," of "involving the U.S. military in a civil war in a sovereign nation." But that wouldn't happen to America for another four years. No, the Kosovo intervention seemed to turn out pretty well...
...most recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has confirmed what many critics of higher education have long suspected: Concerning pedagogical matters at Harvard, the lunatics now run the asylum.After somewhat heated debate, and much delay, the Faculty finally mandated that professors must offer “Q” evaluations for all their courses enrolling at least five students. The legislation’s sponsor, music professor Thomas F. Kelly, while conceding the possibly flawed premise of the evaluative escapade, however insisted that, to be fair, all graduate-student teaching fellows deserve to be judged by their...