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...opposite error is to leave jobs half finished in the name of a foolishly consistent prudence. This is the impracticality of practical men, and this is clearly what controlled the Bush Administration's first response to the plight of the Kurds. Not wanting to become bogged down in Iraq's internal affairs, we left the Kurdish rebellion to its fate. We should have seen that a six-week air war was already a massive intervention in Iraq's affairs. If Saddam was dangerous enough to be bombed out of Kuwait, then his internal enemies, the Kurds and the Shi'ites...
...first game against Cornell remained scoreless until the bottom of the fifth inning when Harvard's Ann Kennon, with one out, started the rally for the Crimson by driving a base hit to center field. Beverly Armstong then reached first on an error, and proceeded to second base on another error. Yet a third error allowed Rachel Donaldson to reach first and Kennon to score from third...
Chris Carr led the Crimson's offense once again in the bottom of the third inning with a basehit to left. Liz Resnick reached first on an error that scored Carr. Resnick then scored after stealing second, third and home on two passed balls by the Big Red pitcher. This gave Harvard a 5-0 lead it would not relinquish...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on April 10-11 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
Finally, on the muddled economics side, Tsongas makes one error that's just too amusing to pass up. "Conservation also means higher gasoline prices," he writes, in his "Economic Call to Arms." But conservation decreases consumption, doesn't it? And that lowers demand? So the price should go down, as it did in the 1980s, with the introduction of more fuel-efficient automobiles. Ouch...