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...road in two weeks. Nevertheless, Harvard gave its two sellout crowds heartfelt performances, proving that the Crimson has the potential not only to compete with but to outplay the league's best. The second half of the season could be wild and crazy, as Harvard looks to earn a birth in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since...
...matter how strong your belief that Princeton "stole" a victory or that the Tigers didn't earn a win, you can't help but feeling anything but happy for Wente...
...hard to estimate the trade's size. "Income from the underground traffic in arms is lower than that generated by other sources, in particular gambling and narcotics," says Yeshua Moser Puangsuwan, regional director for the Geneva-based Nonviolence International. But those two highly profitable illegal activities - which earn billions of dollars annually worldwide - are so entwined with arms smuggling they cannot be separated. "If you trade in narcotics, human beings or contraband, you must have access to arms," says Puangsuwan. "It ties them all together...
...lost his temper; for his verbal barrage, he received a series of vague fines that destroyed the better part of his income for the week. I have met Palestinians who traveled for hours and took huge risks to circumvent the Israeli closure of the West Bank so they might earn enough money to provide their children with food for the first time in several days. I know children who have missed untold amounts of school because of curfews. None of these events make their way onto CNN because they are unspectacular compared to the short bursts of violence. Nonetheless, these...
...match for FARC's better-armed and more mobile guerrillas - and that remains true even though the U.S. has begun funneling aid to the government forces as part of its war on drugs. The reason for the imbalance, in part, is that the FARC is estimated to earn some $700 million a year from selling protection to the narcotics industry in zones under its control - and that, together with their supplementary income from the hundreds of kidnappings they undertake each year, makes them the wealthiest and best-equipped leftist guerrilla movement in history...