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Harvard Men Against Rape will also lend a hand to this year’s Take Back the Night (TBTN) activities...
Like other games that lend themselves to statistical reduction, cricket can be brutally efficient in judging its players across the years. There?s usually no need to look beyond the weight of runs scored and wickets taken to assess a player?s proper place in the cricketing pantheon. But averages speak of substance rather than style. A talented showman and a dour plodder can be mediocrities on the numbers grid, although the first might have soared as often as he flopped, while the second never got off the ground. David Hookes, who died on Jan. 19, was not a cricket...
...about the candidates. The candidates on the ballot are only the ones that care about the plight of black people in D.C. enough to show support for them,” Terry said. “The others don’t even want to lend their position to fight for the disenfranchised. It would have been a minuscule effort to show their support, to put their name on the ballot, to show that they care whether the residents of Washington, D.C. have a voice in determining the policies...
...sacrifice and is a recurring theme in American history. Abraham Lincoln constantly worried about those who criticized the Civil War for its enormous loss of life and its aim of ending slavery to save the Union. And while World War II raged in Europe, F.D.R. had to defend his Lend-Lease program against isolationists in Congress. Only time will tell whether the Iraq war is worth the cost. WALTER LEE Orange, Calif...
Mind you, Japan's problems are still awful: relent-less deflation that drives down real estate values and prevents companies from raising prices; government debt that amounts to 158% of the gross domestic product (vs. 59% in the u.s.); banks that stifle entrepreneurship through their reluctance to lend money; and a government too paralyzed to mandate real reform. But as Canadian money manager Peter Cundill says, such a grim time "is exactly when you should consider investing, since buying a stock or a market at a low point nearly always works in the long...