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After years of disappointment and less-than-satisfying joint victories, the men’s fencing team finally won the Ivy League Fencing Championships outright last weekend for the first time in the history of the competition. They are joined at the top of the Ivy League rankings by the women’s team, who took home the trophy for the second year straight...
...Which of course is what makes it so politically risky, given an ambivalent public that prefers to restrict abortion than ban it outright. It is almost a mirror image of the challenge faced by abortion-rights activists when they are called upon to defend late-term abortions. Except in cases where the mother?s safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions...
...paper published last month by consultants Global Insight, argues that from three to seven firms could help lift the bloc's competitiveness, "provided that [the energy companies] are clearly seen to compete and do not lapse into a cozy oligopoly." Because Brussels lacks the power to veto every merger outright, Weale recommends capping large firms' share of domestic or regional markets, encouraging them to recover that lost market share in a neighboring member state. Brussels, though, might be hard pushed to enforce the measure. And such a change, if it came at all, would take years to implement...
...year Brian Grandieri and a banged up Friedrich Ebede behind its excellent starting five. Penn coach Fran Dunphy has stood pat with playing seven (and with Ebede’s injury six) despite the tremendous fatigue that it brings upon his squad.If the Quakers have clinched the outright league crown, take Brown and the points. But if there’s something left to play for, Penn will take it by six.PRINCETON AT YALEThis one is also a Friday night-dependent pick.There is no doubt in my mind that if the Tigers need this game, they’ll find...
...that makes History 10a and either History 10b or 10c mandatory for concentrators, and to replace it with a requirement that concentrators take one pre-modern history course and another course geographically removed from their area of interest. However, Kishlansky did not say that the department was considering the outright elimination of the 10a course, which is formally titled "Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures, From Antiquity...