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Those now waxing rhapsodic about the courage of the natives and the beauty of people power need to ask themselves the obvious question: Why now? It is easy to get sentimental about people power. But people power does not always prevail. Indeed, it rarely prevails. It was crushed in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Tiananmen Square 1989--and Iraq 1991. Matched against tyranny at its point of maximum cruelty, people power is useless...
Ciarelli filed the motion to dismiss the lawsuit under California’s Anti-SLAPP Law. The law is an attempt to cut-down on frivolous lawsuits since it forces plaintiffs to prove that “there is a probability that [they] will prevail on the claim” before the suit can proceed...
...Crimson does prevail, and then finds its way past a hapless Catamounts squad the next afternoon, it will see its post-season path cleared considerably...
...holds serve against Columbia, Harvard will head into Saturday night’s game with the chance to move into second place. Counting on another hot-shooting night to pick up the win, however, would be unrealistic. For the Crimson to prevail, it must step up on defense against the Big Red, which ranks first in the league in field goal percentage (.455) and three-point shooting percentage...
...surprised it was as close as it was, but it was the third match after Trinity and Penn,” said co-captain Lindsey Wilkins, explaining how fatigue may have factored in. “It was a pretty tight match…still, I expected us to prevail...