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...might have been at Harvard for 17 years.”Those departures leave Haviland as the lone returning regular on the mound, with a promising trio of freshman hurlers joining an intriguing collection of veterans to help him chew up innings for the Crimson in 2006.Haviland, the de facto ace, went 7-1 in 14 appearances during his freshman campaign, leading the team with a 3.10 ERA and holding opponents to a .225 batting average. A pre-season first-team All-Ivy pick and the only Harvard representative on the All-Northeast Corridor squad, he hopes to rebound from...
...APPOINTED. RAMZAN KADYROV, 29, son of assassinated former Chechen president Akhmad, as the troubled Russian republic's Prime Minister; in the capital Grozny. Allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov became Chechnya's de facto premier after Sergei Abramov?who quit as P.M. last week?was injured in a car crash last year. Human rights groups accuse militia commanded by Kadyrov of widespread abuses, especially "disappearances" of thousands of suspected rebels, charges the new premier denies...
...Kurds - a distinct ethnic group with its own language, history and culture, concentrated in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iran and southern Georgia. Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled their desire for formal independence from Iraq. The Kurds are predominantly...
...Iraqi constitution recognizes the Kurds' de facto autonomy in northern Iraq, allowing them to keep the revenues from any new oil fields and to maintain their own armed forces. But the status of the oil rich northern city of Kirkuk remains a flashoint, because it is claimed not only by Kurds and Arabs, but also by the Turkmen minority - less than 5 percent of the population, but which carries the backing of Turkey, which is vehemently opposed to an independent Kurdish entity...
...evolve. 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...