Word: foe
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...same time, Harvard’s leader was also thrust into the public spotlight as an old foe of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R.-Wisc., defending his faculty’s academic freedom as McCarthy and other politicians targeted institutions of higher education for harboring suspected communists...
...extensively on the corrosive effect on Israeli society of maintaining its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Citing the debilitating effect of Afghanistan on the Soviet Union and of Vietnam on the U.S., he argues that an occupation pits a sophisticated high-tech army not against an equivalent foe, but against lightly-armed insurgents hard to distinguish from the civilian population. "As Israel's own history clearly shows, fighting a stronger opponent will cause a society to unite," he writes, "but combating a weaker one will cause it to split and disintegrate...
...they struggled to explain the unnerving drop-off in Shi'ite support for the occupation, some U.S. officials suggested a familiar foe might be helping to stoke the uprising. "We know the Iranians have been meddling," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters last week. "And it's unhelpful to have neighboring countries meddling in the affairs of Iraq...
Among the many highlights on the home schedule is a date with Boston College on Tuesday November 16th and a December 11th rematch against national runner-up Maine. The Crimson plays another Hockey East foe, Boston University, at Walter Brown Arena on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving...
...this year’s Democratic primaries, as did Al Gore in the last presidential election. The Bush-Cheney campaign has more than enough financial ammunition and media savvy to make a spring running-mate selection old news. So whether Kerry’s ace will be former primary foe John Edwards, Republican buddy John McCain, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson or anyone else, he should let the speculators speculate and the pundits wonder. The Kerry campaign may be craving more buzz in April, but if the candidate shows his hand too early, the Bush-Cheney machine may just find...