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...Basten's team has swept passed Italy, France and Romania without stopping, which is pretty much the way its midfield plays. Van Basten has a red-hot Wesley Sneijder leading the attack, and the prospect of Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie coming off the bench has to frighten any opposing defenders. And Ruud van Nistelrooy at his goal poaching best. That may be too much for its next foe, Russia. The Russians were another one of the surprise packages of the first round, outlasting Greece 1-0 and subduing Sweden with two nearly perfect goals, the second a five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: The Energy and the Agony | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Gorbachev still needed him in the background to frighten the communist conservatives. This gave Yeltsin the chance to develop policies hostile to the entire communist order. How Gorbachev must have regretted rejecting advice to make him Soviet ambassador to a faraway place like Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Yeltsin: Not Your Average Statesman | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...injure your knuckles. Avoid kicking with the top of your foot. Make sure to keep your mouth closed; a blow to an open mouth can break your jaw. Keep your hands in front of your face for protection. 5. Yell and scream while you are fighting, this may frighten off your attacker and attract attention from those who may be able to help. 6. Remember that your primary goal is to escape, and take advantage of any opportunity to flee. If you are concerned about your well being, remember that the Harvard University Police Department has free nighttime services...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Self-Defense for Dummies | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...attorney about challenging the new law on the grounds that it violates the state vehicle code, which says that sales from mobile caterers can only be regulated for public safety. "The county has created a Sword of Damocles," says Jimenez' attorney, Philip Greenwald. "They're trying to frighten [the taco truck drivers] out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Taco Truck War | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

What’s particularly tragic about this situation is that this myth of the “heartland” ethic is by and large a phantasm constructed by conservative elites in order to frighten liberals away from drifting towards populism. In reality, rural America has been the site of some of the nation’s most radical political movements. Eugene Debs, the prominent socialist of the turn of the century, was a proud resident of Terre Haute, Ind. Lyndon Johnson, the architect of the century’s most far-reaching liberal programs, was born a poor...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Bitter End | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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