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...things.And to tell you the truth, it wasn’t that hard.On a personal level, sports have provided stability in my life and have given me an outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release some pent-up anger than by throwing down a tomahawk jam on the hoop in my backyard (even if I had to lower the hoop a few feet).Now that I’m at Harvard, where students face enormous pressure in an unpredictable environment, it’s comforting to know...
Second-place Yale has arguably the best home-court advantage in the league, as Lee Amphitheatre is constantly filled with students expressing their passion for Bulldog basketball—or maybe it’s just their way of unleashing their pent-up anger about living in New Haven. Either way, it is a tough environment for visiting teams. The Bulldogs also welcome back four starters from last year’s team, including potential Player of the Year Eric Flato at the point. The one starter Yale loses, however, is Second Team All-League swingman Casey Hughes, the team?...
...bourses elsewhere, Vietnam's market has no licensed brokers, virtually no regulatory oversight, and trades often culminate with the exchange of cash for paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic boom. "It's the Wild West," says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank's lead financial economist in Hanoi...
...community could indeed form a fifth column in Iraq or at least form new alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist movement. That isn't surprising, since Saddam Hussein's suppression did not allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal-just look at Iran's meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman...
...community could indeed form a fifth column in Iraq or at least form new alliances with Iran. Beinart observed that Iraq's Shi'ites have never launched a secessionist movement. That isn't surprising, since Saddam Hussein's suppression did not allow for much sectarian expression. Much of the pent-up anger under Saddam's regime is now finding an outlet in brutal daily violence. Iran will not hesitate to support an embattled Shi'ite community with all the means at its disposal - just look at Iran's meddling in Lebanon in support of its proxy Hizballah. Isaac Gerstman...