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Harvard's semifinal loss came after a successful run in the regatta, which was rowed in a dual-race tournament format...
Pakistan's Kashmir adventure may cost its government a lot more than a loss of face ?- it may hasten a Western rethink of Pakistan's value as an ally. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif finds himself caught between the international community?s demand that he end the Pakistan-backed guerrilla incursion into Indian territory, and the determination of his countrymen ?- and military ?- to fight on against their traditional enemy. Nawaz drew fire from religious, political and military leaders Monday after returning empty-handed from an emergency July 4 meeting with President Clinton. In Washington, Nawaz had promised to withdraw Pakistani-backed...
Assad has long wanted to reclaim the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, the loss of which he regards as a personal and national indignity. Outpowered militarily, Assad knows negotiations are his best option. The Syrian leader, 68, suffers multiple ailments, which are thought to include diabetes and heart disease. He is eager to prepare the succession of his son Bashar, 34, a mild-mannered, British-trained ophthalmologist who emerged as heir apparent only after his elder brother Basil died in a 1994 car crash. "Assad has more a sense...
...about it, places his faith either in his own rationality or in the rationality of the systems by which his world is governed, whereupon something goes awry, his illusions of order are stripped away, and he is left to fend with the sometimes deadly, always devastating consequences of that loss...
...black youngsters can rekindle that old-fashioned pride is a preoccupation of Rene Redwood, who is resigning this week as executive director of Americans for a Fair Chance, a Washington-based coalition of six civil rights and women's organizations that support affirmative action. Her departure is a big loss for the pro-affirmative action crowd, because Redwood, 43, a former executive director of the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission, has been such a forceful advocate. She still is. But she thinks her allies need new tactics to have any chance of winning over enough public support to preserve the policy...