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...witchhunt involves attacking the powerless, a witchhunt involves a belief in the occult, a witchhunt involves magistrates who also share the belief of the people in the occult. It’s a metaphor that’s employed all too often and a very sloppy one. Surely gossip and rumor played a huge role, but it’s not as though people began deluding themselves in 1692. The people who die, the people who are sacrificed, are often powerless, often old, widowed women. Those are the people who end up being sacrificed to the fanaticism and frenzy...

Author: By Alexander J. Dubbs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hey, Professor Jill Lepore, was Summers’ ouster a ‘witchhunt’? | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

Caught off guard by the mayhem and powerless to stop it, U.S. officials could only offer general expressions of optimism. "Obviously it's a blow," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists as her plane crossed Iraqi airspace after a five-day swing through the Middle East, "but whenever someone tries to tear them apart, [Iraqis] find a way to get back together." Over the weekend, President George W. Bush spent an hour on seven phone calls to Iraqi leaders, expressing condolences, thanking them for their appeals for calm and urging them to continue working to form a new government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Eye For an Eye | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...school with pride. She informs one of her male Harvard friends, whom she met through ROTC, that she has decided to try to run the Boston Marathon in three and a half hours instead of four. She talks about her days playing soccer and how she is learning Aikido. Powerless this woman...

Author: By Alexandra M. Gutierrez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Girls Next Door | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s basketball team was powerless to pull out of its freefall on Friday night, losing to Brown 79-66 at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson dropped its fourth straight league game, including the third in a row at home, to fall to 12-10 overall and 4-5 in the Ivies. “We played in a funk,” captain Matt Stehle said. “It was like we had all just woken up from a long sleep.” Just as in last week’s losses to Princeton...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘In a funk,’ Crimson Falls to Brown | 2/20/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s basketball team was powerless to pull out of its freefall on Friday night, losing to Brown 79-66 at Lavietes Pavilion...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Continues Tailspin | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

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