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Syracuse, seeded No. 6 in the competition, started strongly against Harvard. The Orangemen's Shareen Lai defeated Jain at No.1 singles in three sets...
Anna Khvalina and Lai defeated Magyera and Bajin. But the Crimson rebounded, taking the final two matches. Jain and Ghazal took No. 2 doubles, and Sarah McGinty and Broughton rounded out the match with a victory in No. 3 doubles...
...eyewitness accounts, that a frightened U.S. Army unit had killed as many as 300 civilians at No Gun Ri in the opening weeks of the Korean War. Such a bloodbath would rank as the century's second deadliest committed by U.S. troops, trailing only the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, where G.I.s killed up to 500 noncombatants...
...enough to make one rethink our entire Western value system. When she describes the family spirit and pride in their work of the men at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, shut down by the government, or the still reverberating agony of one of the soldiers who witnessed the My Lai massacre, or the pathetic, "I wanna be a star" fantasies of a member of the Spur Posse (the California teens who kept score of their sexual conquests), she goes a long way toward eliminating the black and white, good and evil, male and female polarities that have riven the sexes...
...Huntington's remarks? My Lai wasn't the result of unschooled insensitivity. It came from that dark side of man's nature which most assuredly spans the boundaries of class and education. Theodore J. Kaczynski was a Harvard man, wasn't he? And I recall that Fidel Castro, Ted Bundy, and Dr. Josef Mengele were "educated" men. Schooling can't wipe away bloodlust and evil from the human spirit--it paints them nicer colors, making them all the more horrible indeed...