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...that part is fine. I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m complaining, because we all have our own crosses to bear. The stutterer’s is not necessarily more arduous because it is more visible. But what is surprising and unsettling, what does merit comment, is when educated people consider shots at a genetic speech impediment to be fair game while other slurs are not. The nimblest speaker couldn’t come up with a defense for that...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Speaking of Ad Hominem… | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard women’s volleyball team rounded off the season-opening Harvard Invitational in fine fashion this weekend, going 2-1 against tough non-conference foes Delaware State, Wofford, and Michigan State at Lavietes Pavilion.“This tournament this weekend really proved to us how good of a team we are and how far we can take it in the Ivy League,” senior Laura Mahon said.After sweeping the Hornets, 3-0, on Friday, the Crimson lost only one game to the Terriers en route to a 3-1 match victory. In the final match...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Finishes Second at Harvard Invitational | 9/9/2007 | See Source »

...That's because there are unmistakable risks to the new Sunni alliance. Arming the Sunnis against al-Qaeda is fine, but if they tire of their alliance with Washington, they become just another faction armed with U.S. weapons. Shi'ites and Kurds worry that the Sunni tribesmen who are fighting alongside American troops now have little or no loyalty to the Iraqi government and would just as soon turn their guns on Iraqi forces as on al-Qaeda. In addition, strengthening a Sunni stronghold in the middle of the country goes a ways toward cementing the very partitioning of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moment Of Truth in Iraq | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...Muslim world, and sparked renewed debate about the theological and philosophical roots of the so-called "clash of civilizations" percolating across the globe. Flinging the mild-mannered Benedict into the fire of breaking-news notoriety - with both his keen intelligence and striking lack of political acumen on fine display - the controversial lecture is the singular watershed of his papacy. Indeed, Vatican watchers now commonly divide Benedict's reign into "before and after" Regensberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Pope Behave in Austria? | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...Chagossians or the treatment of terror suspects such the Indonesian al-Qaeda leader Hambali, who is believed to have been held on the island, I at least wanted proof I'd been there. Twenty years ago, Time's Chief of Correspondents, Dick Duncan, offered a case of fine Bordeaux to the first correspondent who filed a legitimate story from Diego Garcia. The equivalent in 2007 media dollars is probably a box of Chablis, but in any case I wanted evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise in Concrete | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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