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Last game of the season for both teams. Major implications for NCAA seeding and possibly the Ivy title if Dartmouth and/or Brown successfully topple the Crimson at home. Both teams also played on the last day of the season last year with Dartmouth winning 2-0 at home...
...sure, we would prefer to see both sides cooperate with the U.N. investigation rather than dispute the findings of the report. The constant—and often violent—struggle between Israel and the Palestinian territories is one of the major sources of stress for the entire world, not merely the U.S. But since both sides will likely continue to insist upon their own innocence, we may as well hope, in the admirable spirit of U.N. naivete, for a much larger step toward peace...
...Sadly, probably not. Those campaigners who were among the loudest in calling for the resignation of the police commissioner, Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali, fear that his dismissal is merely an attempt by the government to paper over the problems that have plagued the police force for years. They say it may be part of a conspiracy to pre-empt demands for more radical reform that are expected to emerge in the coming days. (Read "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...
Peru's private and public sectors are both pushing for internationalization. There has been an explosion of cooking schools, with more than 6,000 students learning the art of haute cuisine, and Peru is a constant presence at all major international gastronomic fairs. The government passed a decree declaring that food is part of the nation's heritage, saying it "contributes significantly to the consolidation of national identity...
Much work has to be done. Hatoyama has yet to make his first major policy speech, addressing his vision of Japan, which, says Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University's Japan Campus, needs to deal with "the demographic death spiral - low fertility, underemployment of female professionals, low immigration. That's the real life-and-death question for the nation...