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...schedule seems to have prepared Harvard for the long Ivy road ahead. “The real reason we won is because everyone contributed,” McKinley said. “The Dartmouth tournament is always a blast, and although [the Dartmouth players] are rivals, we have great respect for them and feed off of their energy.” HARVARD 3, ST. FRANCIS 0 The Crimson controlled the third and final game against St. Francis (0-18), taking only 50 minutes to clinch the tournament title, dominating the Terriers by scores...
...Then there was her pained, and painful, response to Couric's questions about the Bush "freedom agenda" - the goal of spreading democracy in the Islamic world. Predictably, Palin repeated standard Bush platitudes about making "every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, respect for equality. That is the whole goal here in fighting terrorism. It's not just to keep the people safe, but to be able to usher in democratic values and ideals around this, around the world." That theory, though, has been discredited by the debacle in Iraq and years of inconvenient outcomes...
...even if Zuma (pictured above) succeeds in providing stability while fulfilling promises to his leftist supporters, the status of the African National Congress (ANC) party, once the continent's most respected organ of national liberation, has been irreversibly diminished by the infighting of the past few years. Under Nelson Mandela, the ANC peerlessly wielded its moral authority. But that trait also encouraged leaders to think they were above reproach, an attitude that found its fullest expression in Mbeki, who often acted as if he had no reason to explain himself and simply asked people to take his decisions on trust...
...honest conversation about protection. Also, girls don't have sex or get pregnant on their own. We need to start promoting male role models who don't just use women and leave. We need to start teaching our boys to treat females and their own children with more respect. For both girls and boys: Use condoms every time. Don't have sex just to fit in. And babies won't make you happy. We adults must be willing to talk about these big issues. We can't simply squeeze our eyes shut to the situation and hope it will...
...plane and begins to feel the satisfaction of a martyr that Atta can finally feel his bowels start to move. Religion is shit, Amis is saying, and yet he is doing it in the most insensitive way—exploiting an event that should be treated with the utmost respect and seriousness. For the depth of his understanding of the problems facing the post-9/11 world, Amis has very little to offer by way of solution. “Opposition to religion already occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally,” he says. “People...