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...sophomore from Farmington, Conn., whose performance is heating up just as the bats have shown signs of cooling. He will start Game 1 of tomorrow’s Ivy home-opening doubleheader against Penn (7-19, 2-6 Ivy). Sophomore Matt Vance, the team’s de facto leadoff man—his ten steals lead the league—will be conspicuously absent from the outfield. Vance stayed home yesterday to visit with doctors about what appeared to be a torn labrum, the principal muscle of the throwing shoulder. Until Sunday’s game against Cornell...
...That's too simple. Conflicts are most wisely resolved by a multinational process that listens to and understands the subtleties of cultural differences and proposes solutions that build trust and democratic consensus. Besides lacking the broad knowledge necessary, single states are concerned primarily with national interests. As de facto world policeman since the end of the cold war, the U.S. has exhibited both problems. Given the anti-American feelings throughout the world, it would be in the U.S.'s best interest not to be world policeman. Frank Chase Nishinomiya, Japan Soulful Last Words time's Verbatim column quoted the note...
...Kurds' primary problem with Jaafari may be less his sectarian or Islamist inclinations, than his refusal to back their claim on the oil city of Kirkuk-and his willingness to consort with Turkey to prevent the emergence of a viable Kurdish entity with de facto independence. Again, Jaafari's position on this issue is shared by the Sunnis and the more nationalist (as opposed to Iran-inclined) Shi'ites...
...least I was able to show up. For many in Washington--Congressmen and Senators especially--being married to someone in the de facto auxiliary club of this company town means the spouse doesn't live in the city at all. A lobbyist friend (people do have them, even now) recently rattled off six current and former legislators who had come to Washington married to a "high school sweetheart type" back home and then found themselves married a second time to someone a little more "in the game"--a staff member or lobbyist, usually. My friend added, for emphasis, "Newt Gingrich...
Harvard’s upperclassman Houses exhibited patterns of de facto segregation until 1996, when the College began to randomize housing assignments. But even though College housing is fully integrated, College life poses a more complex picture...