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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...
...what they were securing: there was no room for Congress, independent judiciary, free press, or fair trials for suspects. The Argentine military hunted subversive terrorists but then moved on to civil dissidents: they targeted everyone from union leaders to liberal college students. These people, according to the de facto President, were neither alive nor dead; they were just desaparecidos.But what did that mean? At illegal detention centers, they were tortured in the name of “national security” or their keepers’ dark pleasures. Babies born to captive mothers were given to officers, thus erasing their...
...fair and informed decision," D. Hamilton Peterson told the Washington Post. His father and stepmother died on that flight, and he was one of the thousands of victims' relatives contacted by prosecutors, who traveled the country to interview them, kept them abreast of the prosecution and acted as de facto grief counselors, according to the Post...
...This carrot and stick approach may be standard diplomatic practice, but it raises an awkward question for an administration whose own de-facto Iran policy veers towards regime change. Almost every nation that backs the U.S. against Iran going nuclear would be equally adamant against any U.S. effort to force a change of regime in Tehran. The Europeans believe that regime change, although desirable, must occur as a result of internal pressure, because - as the nuclear standoff has shown - any external threat rallies even opponents of the mullahs behind their regime, and any attack on Iran would create chaos...
...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...