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Junior co-captain Jesse Jantzen placed third at this weekend‘s highly competitive Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, but the Harvard wrestling team felt it turned in a disappointing performance overall...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Third-Place Jantzen Wrestling’s Lone Star in Vegas | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

...united Europe." Both countries want to amplify the E.U.'s voice in foreign and security policy, a task made somewhat simpler by the fact that nato - to whom Germany remains more indebted than France - is fading in influence. And both countries, having tied their fates to the euro, are keen to find better ways to coordinate budgetary policy among the eurozone's 12 countries. But behind the declarations of intent, big differences remain. France has increased its defense budget this fiscal year by 6%, while Germany is cutting back. Defense Minister Peter Struck last week announced that Germany would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Happy Marriage of Convenience | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

...from European and American film studies departments extensively expose students to foreign films and film history. Whether they be from the canonical European classics dating from the 1890s, Chinese film from the 1930s or contemporary Korean and Japanese work, all ensure that graduates of the academy leave with a keen competitive edge in the international market and go on to create important, original work informed by a firm sense of history and tradition...

Author: By Darryl J. Wee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Generation | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...last overheard in Tora Bora. Senior Bush aides admit privately that the month it took to build up forces for the invasion of Afghanistan gave bin Laden and his senior leaders plenty of time to carry out evacuation plans. The military is a lot less keen to confess that it blew its best opportunity to nab him in the December assault on Tora Bora. Washington committed too few American troops to the hunt, even some U.S. military officers say, while relying on iffy Afghan warlords to do the dirty work and indifferent Pakistani forces to cut off escape routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't We Find Bin Laden? | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...team’s main goal right now is to get healthy, but with strong performances from freshmen and veterans alike, the Crimson is optimistic about its chances at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in December...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Claims Three Titles at ESU | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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