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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Following the opening period, Harvard used the second to gain a lead that it wouldn’t relinquish. After the first seven and a half minutes of the quarter yielded no scores, a Quaker goal with 7:17 to go was followed by four straight Crimson scores. Two of them came from senior Sean Kane, who finished the day with his first hat trick of the season. The three-goal margin at halftime was the closest Penn got the rest of the afternoon...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Surprises Quakers | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...sense women already have a version of that right: Most states have laws permitting a woman to relinquish all her parental responsibilities if she leaves a baby at a hospital after giving birth. "No shame. No blame. No names" says the poster on the bus shelter. Naturally such laws are designed to offer an alternative to the heartbreaking stories we read of babies dumped in trash cans and abandoned by the side of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man's Right to Choose? | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...world may be anxious to see how Israel and Hamas deal with each other. But Palestinians are more worried about another showdown: between Hamas and Fatah, the organization founded by Yasser Arafat, whose members do not want to relinquish control of the Palestinian government to the upstarts. Both Palestinian officials and Israeli security experts say that a clash between the two forces is inevitable and could swiftly turn violent. The feud runs deep. Fatah members are secular, while Hamas' leadership is guided by the Koran. Palestinians complain that many of Arafat's old commanders are little better than gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble All Around | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...does the proposed deal cheat those signatories to the NPT who chose to relinquish their claims to nuclear weapons in return for civilian nuclear technology. Those countries agreed to a pact and have reaped the benefits of their decisions for the last several decades. Given that the last thirty-six years have witnessed the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and a marked growth spurt in eastern economies, it is entirely reasonable for the U.S. and other powers to now reconsider nuclear policies laid out in the late...

Author: By Nikhil G. Mathews | Title: DISSENTING OPINION: Friends with Benefits | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...also highlighted the troubling extent to which many of the men in the most capable Iraqi security units remain loyal to ethnic and sectarian agendas. Shi'ite leader al-Hakim, for instance, had initially blamed the Samarra bombing in part on Khalilzad's pressure on his party to relinquish control of the Interior Ministry, which controls some 110,000 police and paramilitary personnel-many of whom are drawn from Shi'ite militias and have been accused of doubling as death squads targeting Sunnis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadr Seeks Iraq National Unity—Against U.S. | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

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