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...contrast to the Crimson’s duo dominance was the team’s only conspicuous weakness, a dangerous mid-meet hiccupping pattern. Though deep reserves have repeatedly propelled the Crimson to victory, the squad has made a habit of winning the doubles point, only to fall behind in singles play...
Careful examination showed that the infant had one testis, what looked like a small penis and no uterus or vagina. Genetic tests did not make things any clearer: some of the child's cells contained the XX chromosome pairing typically seen in girls, others contained the XY pattern seen in boys, and some had but a single X chromosome, commonly seen in girls with a condition called Turner syndrome...
Sadly, it is impossible to examine the HFA shakeup without fitting it into a consistent pattern of administrators marginalizing the arts, a symptom that jeopardizes Harvard’s stature. The VES department is still recovering, both internally and in public perception, from the firing of former chair Ellen Phelan in spring 2001. Phelan, a distinguished painter who brought in top New York artists, was replaced by Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, an English scholar with no formal background in the practice of visual arts. Now that the VES is having its renowned film archive taken away?...
...part, by his repeated attacks on essential international agreements, from opposing the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto protocol to imposing illegal steel tariffs. The irresponsible decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty and pursue missile defense two years ago was but one stitch in Bush’s pattern of offending the rest of the world in pursuit of some dubious objective. And now that the U.S. is out of the ABM treaty and Russia has responded, the only thing America has gained from missile defense is a deeper deficit. Bush should abandon missile defense now and focus...
...pattern has not been missed: labeling the liberals’ case against President Bush, editorial writers and commentators from across the punditocracy have stamped the epithet “populist” across the forehead of nearly every Democratic candidate. In the Washington Post last month, David S. Broder called former Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s fundraising appeals “internet-based populism.” In The New York Times the same day, Robin Toner mused about whether Americans can accept a “populist uprising” at a time of economic recovery...