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Last week's loss to Ivy foe Cornell places Harvard in something of a must-win situation. The Ivy season is short with no second chances, so even a single loss can dim Ivy league title hopes...
Moreover, the doctors did all this in direct defiance of the human immune system, a formidable foe whose chief goal is to reject any and all foreign objects. It accomplishes this by deploying highly specialized cells trained to recognize interlopers, then hunt them down and kill them--even if doing so destroys the very life the donated organ was meant to save. The doctors believed the best weapons they had at their disposal were drugs designed to disable the immune system, if only partially. A mixture of azathioprine, prednisone and antilymphocyte globulin was the choice in the 1960s...
...fact, what flared up last week was two rather separate wars, connected by the thuggish intentions of Saddam Hussein. War A, let's call it, is a nasty struggle for autonomy, power, money and influence among the fractious Kurds in northern Iraq and the sometime-friend, sometime-foe regional powers of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. An alphabet soup of rival Kurds locked in a cynical game of cooperation and betrayal want independence but fight each other more ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially...
...games are coming up. In particular, a highly anticipated showdown against Ivy foe Yale this weekend could set the tone for the remaining part of the season...
...WELL THAT ENDS WELL, OR so the saying goes. At the end of this Shakespeare play, the girl gets the boy of her dreams, the boy is pardoned by his wealthy mother and patron king, and the ratty scoundrel becomes the dearest friend of his former foe. Sounds quite well, doesn...