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...turn-back-the-clock triumph has rekindled memories of Washington's cold war obsession with Nicaragua, which embroiled the U.S. in a bloody guerrilla campaign and nearly doomed the Reagan presidency. Although Nicaragua, a nation of 5.5 million, is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, the prospect of an Ortega restoration prompted the Bush Administration to threaten to cut off more than $200 million in total aid to the country and moved cold warriors like former U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to fly to Managua to campaign against him. The U.S. is concerned that Ortega will...
...tuberculosis victims, the worst part about the disease isn’t the symptoms, which include coughing up blood for weeks on end. Nor is it the prospect of eventually becoming another one of the 1.7 million people who die every year from...
...day.But then, in this glorious hypothetical, Harvard would earn one more home game as the higher seed, and the contest would be slated to take place here in Cambridge on Saturday or Sunday. Isn’t the one thing that could save a disaster of a tailgate the prospect that probably the biggest game any Crimson team will play all season would take place inside of the tailgate itself?As you can tell, I am pretty excited just by the thought of it—this could be the most exciting sporting event (and possibly the most supported...
Princeton keeps the prospect of an outright Harvard title alive in New Haven...
...Kurds and Shi'ites would have to guarantee the Sunnis a proportionate share of Iraq's oil revenues for a period of time, as they have already agreed to do. Over the long term, exploration for oil in the largely unexplored Sunni areas provides the region its best prospect for revenues...