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...improvement Harvard had made throughout the course of the season thus far seemed to disappear in one night, as the Crimson's totals on Friday were reminiscent of the team's games in December...
...costs $205. "Age-appropriate behavior is something we've lost sense of," says Joan Jacobs Brumberg, the author of The Body Project. "It's appropriate to say to children that you do certain things--like drive, wear makeup--at certain ages. Otherwise, the line between childhood and adulthood will disappear...
...Those deep economic troubles are unlikely to disappear with Estrada, as Arroyo concedes. "Things are so bad now," she says. "Oh yes, they can still get worse." Still, Arroyo has had a shadow cabinet since she quit Estrada's cabinet in October, and says she has big ideas for plugging the Philippines into the global economy. She talks about "structural reforms" and "a level playing field" - the kind of hip, business jargon that never escaped Estrada's lips. "Things can get better under us," she insists...
...stake, especially now, is the very identity of the country. The Brits are a flexible lot, but in a very short space of time, they have seen a large amount of their heritage disappear. At the same time that the Blair government is banning foxhunting, it's also banning the use of nonmetric measurements, like feet, inches, miles and gallons, in favor of European measurements that most Brits abhor. Blair has reformed the House of Lords to gut it of its historical privileges. He is busy merging the British armed services into a pan-European force. After the next election...
...says, it is time for the U.S. to cough up some funds. "If they don't our soldiers will disappear and al-Qaeda will come back," he warns. But Pachakhan certainly will not give up that easily. In Khost, counter-terror operations are an extension of local politics. Pachakhan is hunting down al-Qaeda in his region to "protect our family and friends," says his brother-minister, Amanullah. A top al-Qaeda leader in the area, the brothers claim, is old rival Jamaludin Haqqani, a former mujahedin in Soviet times and later a Taliban minister, who squeezed the royalists...