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...only good thing about having football players in section is the prospect of better grades for everyone else,” jokes a Government concentrator who wishes to remain anonymous. An Economics concentrator sarcastically asserts that “some athletes probably only got in [to Harvard] because they can dribble a basketball better than they can write...
Instead, he and other Harvard athletes keep going for the right reason. Not for scholarship money, or for recognition, or for the prospect of a career in-sport. Coleman and Harvard student-athletes play for a love of the game, and that is as pure an ideal as you will find...
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is designated by the Koran as a time of prayer, spiritual reflection and fasting. Paradoxically, one Muslim nation is this year faced with the unusual, if not unprecedented, prospect of war during the holy month. And with no sign of an imminent end to the conflict in Afghanistan, American military officials must consider whether fighting should continue into Ramadan, which begins...
...because ineffective operations like last week's incursions fritter away the Palestinian awe for Israel's military might. By using tanks last week, Israeli officers say, the next time Israel goes into the Palestinian towns it'll have to do so with even more force. That's an ugly prospect: in the last week, 29 Palestinian civilians and 13 policemen died either in gunfights with Israeli soldiers or when they were caught by loose rounds. "The whole operation was dictated from above, but we'll start to pay the price of being inside these towns," says a senior Israeli officer...
...other, as well. The Pakistan-backed elements in the south who hope to bring down the Taliban by coaxing moderate elements to switch sides are mistrustful and hostile towards the Northern Alliance, while the Alliance refuses to consider having even moderate Taliban elements in a future government. And the prospect of the Taliban's defeat may even be exacerbating sharp differences between the agendas of the rival Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari components of the Northern Alliance, and between the competing regional interests of Iran, Russia and Pakistan. The Taliban's demise, however, will depend strongly on whether Pashtun groups...