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...should appoint his predecessor, Kofi Annan, fresh from brokering a power-sharing deal for Kenya, as the U.N.'s envoy to Zimbabwe. One by one, those African and Western leaders who claim to be disgusted with Mugabe should announce that they bilaterally recognize the validity of the March 29 first-round election results, which showed the opposition winning 48% to 43%, though the margin was almost surely larger. The countries which do would make up the new "March 29 bloc" within the U.N. and would declare Morgan Tsvangirai the new President of Zimbabwe. They would then announce that Mugabe...
...vote is deemed necessary because even though MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai came out ahead in the presidential poll on March 29, according to official results, he didn't get an outright majority. Earlier hopes that the vote might end Mugabe's 28-year rule quickly evaporated. Instead, the first-round results turned out to be a cue for Zimbabwe's security services and pro-Mugabe militias to rampage across the country...
...same two-day, 54-hole setup, with the first two rounds being played on the first day and the last round on the next. “We proved ourselves and we’re in the right place to perform well next weekend,” captain Jessica Hazlett (86-84-80-250) said. Despite leaving Mamaroneck, N.Y., very happy, not everything was always so rosy for the Crimson. In the first round of play on Friday, no Harvard player shot better than 84. “The first round was definitely a struggle,” Hazlett said...
...Tonight, the Crimson’s first-round matchup in the annual Beanpot tournament will conclude a whirlwind stretch of baseball—after this evening’s game, Harvard will have played seven games in the last four days. The first pitch against UMass is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight at Fraser Field in Lynn, Mass...
...March 21 victory marked the third time that the Crimson has defeated the Big Red this season. The last time the two teams met was in the final game of the regular season in Ithaca where Harvard skated off the ice with a 3-1 win and a first-round bye in the ECAC tournament. “It’s like seeing an old friend,” Donato said. “Inevitably, it seems, at some point you’re going to see Cornell.” Unfortunately...