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While Cornell stands in a position to contend for the league title, Columbia, who enters the weekend winless through four Ivy matchups, seems like a team headed for the opposite fate. After recording only two conference victories a year ago, wins will be hard to come by for the Lions once again in 2007. Senior guard Megan Griffith is the team’s lone player in double figures this season at 14.1 points per game, and Columbia will need Griffith’s teammates step up if they hope to compete against Harvard or any other Ancient Eight contender...
...fate of the peace process, in other words, may be decided by what happens in places like Migron. As Israeli society has grown more secular and less attached to the vision of a greater Israel, ideological splits have emerged among the settlers. The most radical "hilltop youths" are ready to mobilize and resist the government's attempts to remove them. Many like Harel are second-generation settlers, the sons and daughters of older Zionists. They have grown up steeped in holy books and prophecy and see themselves as the first line of defense against the Arabs. They consider themselves divorced...
...issued a 33-page proposal for constitutional reforms, the prospect of change received a crushing blow. Stoffel Botha, Natal's ruling National Party boss, rejected the reforms, saying they failed to protect Natal's whites from "domination" by blacks. The last, best hope seemed destined to meet the same fate as so many other attempts to achieve racial harmony. The white opposition Progressive Federal Party, which had participated in the conference, termed the rejection "a reaction from bigots who seem to have a death wish for South Africa...
...importance to him is clearly not a matter of money: Simon, whose net worth is estimated at a minimum of $30 million, can afford the luxury of being the majority backer of his plays, which nowadays cost around $800,000 to mount. Nor will the show's fate much affect his power: his record is so strong that his name appears above the title on many of his plays and movies, a rare honor for a playwright and an all but unprecedented one for a screenwriter who is not also a director. Virtually anything Simon writes will be produced?...
...leading the attack were detained by the authorities and are set for trial in March. But Emad El Kebir himself was jailed this month after being convicted for resisting the authorities - police accused him of wielding a broken bottle and injuring an officer. His lawyers fear for his fate in prison, where he is serving a three-month sentence...