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Hall played on the U.S. team that won the gold in the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic this summer. Bajwa believes that experience will help Hall, Harvard’s No. 1 player since her freshman year, compete for the individual crown this season. She got sick before the Collegiate Squash Association Individual Championship last year and was unable to participate...
...Completely disregarding the ethics of the invasion, there are some basic facts that cannot be overlooked: building up a new government - especially one that resides over a troubled region - is extremely difficult. Just look at the history of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Russia. New democratic governments have failed more than they have succeeded. Japan and Germany were exceptions, not the rule. We must pour in all of the time and resources needed to ensure that Iraq succeeds. We cannot create another Cuba. Alonzo Wilkins Troy, Ohio...
...Botticelli paintings and six drawings, plus a dozen works by contemporaries like Filippo Lippi and Piero di Cosimo, all working during the late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include a colored-ink Map of the Inferno illustration for Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence...
...medal next year." The Paris contest is likely to be dominated by a flock of athletes who seem near unbeatable. Maria Mutola of Mozambique is undefeated this year at 800 m. Mexican 400-m runner Ana Guevara hasn't lost since August 2001. Felix Sánchez of the Dominican Republic has won his last 22 races in the 400-m hurdles. And Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, the three-time defending champion at 1,500 m, feels so good at that distance, he says, that "my goals are to win the 1,500 m and take a medal...
That success has already inspired changes elsewhere. A similar strategy of student intervention throughout a five-year period helped lead to a labor agreement at the BJ&B factory in the Dominican Republic in March...