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...first place, as an American sports fan it’s hard to get excited for any Winter Olympics. Conceptually, they’re difficult for us to grasp except for a few folks in the Northeast and Rocky Mountain regions...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Winter of Discontent | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

...nefarious terror group that has demonstrated no respect for human life. Over the past decade, its members have kidnapped foreign tourists and missionaries and either ransomed them or, in some cases, beheaded them. They continue to hold hostages; two Americans and a Philippine nurse are currently in their grasp. In 1995 they were accused of massacring 52 Philippine villagers. In this war on terror, it is important for America to offer help to nations attempting to eradicate groups like Abu Sayyaf...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fight Terror in the Philippines | 1/30/2002 | See Source »

...they might to disguise the fact, faculty members are employees of Harvard University, and Summers is their boss. For such a simple concept, it is suprisingly difficult for West to grasp. He is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to engage in scholarly research, so why is everyone outraged that he is being compelled to hold up his end of the contract...

Author: By Eric B. Hart, | Title: West Out of Touch With Reality | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s prison meditations (1997’s Death Blossoms). After all, Cornel West is a genius—“one of the most preeminent minds of our time,” according to cornelwest.com, with a “deep grasp of a multitude of subject matter.” True, his writings, like those of any great man, occasionally inspire carping from West’s political enemies (jealous fellow professors, the scoundrels of the troglodyte Right, and so on) who suggest that the Fletcher University Professor’s work...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, ROSS G. DOUTHAT | Title: Let Us Now Praise Cornel West | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

Given the current state of the region, achieving anything resembling peace will require calm and responsible leadership. Although this is hardly a revolutionary idea, it is one that Arafat seems to have been unable or unwilling to grasp. Honest negotiations can bring peace. Katyusha rockets will not. Sadly, if Arafat continues to ignore this vital fact, he will prove correct Israel’s claim that he has become irrelevant to the peace process...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Gunboat Diplomacy | 1/9/2002 | See Source »

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