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...offense after allowing a pair of field goals. Backed up on their own 20, the Mountain Hawks looked to be giving the Crimson solid field position for a drive to get back in the game. Instead, junior kicker/punter Jason Leo boomed a 66-yard punt that benefited from a generous roll and pinned Harvard inside its own 20 at the 14-yard line...
...Netanyahu is still consolidating his hold on Likud after recent party elections, while Barak is using his post as acting defense minister to convince Israelis that he is no longer the one-time peacemaker who, when he was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, was prepared to cut generous deals with Palestinian militants. The newly minted Barak is now wary of any negotiations with Palestinians and wants to impose harsher sanctions on the 1.5 million Palestinians who live under control of Hamas militants in Gaza. Both rivals are willing to wait until Olmert's troubles become so tangled that...
...line between heroic martyrdom and psychopathic self-destructiveness is ever a thin and shifting one, and Sean Penn, the writer and director of Into the Wild, has obviously poured his generous heart and sympathetic soul into his adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of young man named Chistopher McCandless, who chose (to his sorrow and our discomfort) to walk that line...
...just a corporate problem either: the weight of retiree health-care costs could crush state and local governments. The largest employers in the U.S., state and local governments sign the paychecks for more than 16 million Americans, many of them with generous health benefits in retirement. Municipalities, unlike private companies, are not required to account for their unfunded retirement obligations, but they will be soon...
...Americans are wonderfully generous people. You're a lot of other things as well-- some good, some...