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...showed the most positive signs yet of overcoming his recent tendency to play too conservatively.“Dan’s really starting to pull the trigger on his big shots,” Fish said. Nguyen’s ability to play aggressively and consistently will prove crucial as the Crimson moves toward the Ivy season, where they will face fierce competition up and down the lineup.At No. 3, junior Sasha Ermakov struggled for the third straight match, losing 6-2, 6-0.—Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...
...long time for us to regain our confidence in our ability to manage our own affairs without robbing ourselves silly, turning on each other along ethnic lines, and practicing a politics of brinkmanship. For our leaders, we can only hope that the humbling experience of international intervention will prove instructive as well...
...splintering among rebels and janjaweed is undermining international efforts to end the conflict. Military solutions are proving futile: the 9,000-odd U.N. and African Union peacekeepers currently in Darfur have failed to stanch the violence, and the planned deployment of 17,000 more has been delayed by Sudanese-government intransigence, insufficient troop contributions and a lack of equipment--notably helicopters, a critical component when policing a region almost the size of Texas. Attempts to get the warring parties to negotiate a settlement have gone nowhere. The rebels' goals vary wildly, and their personalities are prickly. "You can't have...
...time, the Clinton campaign stepped up its attacks on the media, insisting that Obama has been receiving kid-glove treatment. The theme sank into the broad public consciousness when Saturday Night Live returned from the writers' strike to make a recurring theme of the fawning press. Perhaps eager to prove that they can be equally tough on Obama, journalists filled that week with stories about Obama's Canada problem and his ties to an indicted Chicago real estate developer, Tony Rezko...
...think of anything that would more prove that the American dream was alive and well than if the folks from Iowa can give this kid from Arkansas a chance to lead this country," he told a crowd in Coralville at one event. "You will restore the faith of a lot of people in this country that you can't buy the White House, that you got to earn it the old-fashioned...