Word: favor
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Cornell suffered its lone loss to St. Lawrence three weekends ago, and doing a favor for the second-place Saints (4-0 ECAC) is the last thing it has in mind. But the third-place Big Red needs to knock off the undefeated Crimson--giving St. Lawrence control of the league--if it wants to stay within a game of the league leaders...
...expect Israel to live up to a higher standard than its Arab neighbors--to not sponsor international terrorism, to not force its children into battle as a propaganda technique, to punish, not reward, the violations of its soldiers. But Sharfstein fails to present a realistic argument in favor of open criticism of internal Israeli policy. His comparison with criticism of a Jewish religious issue is hollow; his assertion that failure to point out Israel's shortcomings actually hurts Israel is wrong. As a Jew who claims loyalty to Israel, he would do well to direct his criticism in a more...
Conservatives who do not favor normalizing relations with Cuba cancelled plans to participate in a Kennedy School panel held last night, resulting in a one-sided discussion that speakers said was indicative of the poor relations between the U.S. and Cuba...
...even a lawsuit) against the Fly Club to the Massachussetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) is as yet unresolved. But the club issue on campus, if one can believe the front page stories about "The Boors of Harvard" [Perspective, November '88], has long since been decided in her favor. But the simple fact that well-connected people in the campus press say the clubs are nasty and reprehensible should not be enough actually to make them...
...financially troubled Monitor, which has spent millions in recent years developing a radio service, a worldwide shortwave operation, a cable TV program and a monthly magazine, the editors were shocked when a cost-cutting proposal they had developed at management's behest was rejected outright in favor of a vastly different plan that would eliminate some of the paper's prized international bureaus. "No self-respecting editor could accept such a downgrading of the importance of the daily newspaper's content and such a compromising of its editorial control and integrity," wrote Anable of the new plan in his letter...