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Drawing the Line Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner, should be allowed to compete in the Beijing Olympics with his Cheetahs prosthetics [Jan. 28]. But he should be allowed to do so with one proviso: if he crosses the finish line first, he should be presented with a special award...
The Harvard men’s swimming and diving team continued its march toward perfection this weekend with a resounding sweep in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The Crimson defeated the usually feisty Tigers 213.5-139.5 and trounced the Bulldogs 227.5-125.5 over the two-day meet in New...
There is growing concern that local militias now allied with the U.S. are turning their guns on each other as the U.S. prepares to pull back its presence. These groups have been tasked with pacifying some of the most restive corners of Iraq - contributing to the measure of stability enjoyed...
Jones, who was visiting Washington last month, says that the fighting has "by and large" not entangled coalition forces in hostilities. But what concerns officials is how to keep the CLCs in line as the U.S. presence recedes. President George W. Bush said in the State of the Union address...
The militias are already showing that they can take on a life of their own. "Some CLCs are street gangs," says the U.S official in Iraq, "somebody crosses into somebody else's territory, he's going to get shot." Already, there are cases of these neighborhood watch groups turning on...