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...Harvard’s winning ways came to a halt in the semifinals when the Crimson squared off against Yale. The Bulldogs defeated Harvard 4-0 and went on to win the championship title, but the competition was not as one-sided as the score indicated...
Entryway meetings and smoking breaks on the vaunted steps of Widener Library will come to a halt next week, and the Class of 2006 will have to wait a full year to walk up the temporary wooden steps that are installed every winter to prevent library users from slipping...
...however, many of its traditional structures came under threat. Over the past few decades, old-style Korean homes called hanok?open courtyards surrounded by living quarters?were systematically demolished to make way for more modern buildings. The quiet, meandering roads became scarred with constant construction. In an effort to halt Insadong's slow death, Seoul made it an historic district in 1994. Today, Koreans and foreigners alike come for tea and a browse through the studios and shops...
...acts of violence. Most important, American government and businesses have not played symmetrical roles in the conflict. Israel receives enormous U.S. military aid and investment, whereas Palestinians receive very little. Were we providing the arms for both sides of this conflict, then it might be reasonable to demand a halt to all our funding of both sides...
...rightly. The decision to appease Hitler by abandoning Czechoslovakia in 1938 was arrived at by international consensus; it was as multilateral—and as wrongheaded—as one could hope. On the other hand it is hardly likely that, if the United States had decided to halt genocide in Rwanda through police-keeping action, that policy would have been spat upon as “unilateral.” It would have been the right thing to do, and our unwillingness to do it when the international community failed to act is something we should all regret...