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...place is intensely satisfying, and contributes to building valuable community cohesion.Curiously, in each case, some kind of catalyst is needed to make individuals embrace their long-lost identities. As superficial as cheering on one’s national soccer team, or drunkenly taunting one’s collegiate rival may be, these experiences release the repressed identities that Germans and Harvardians alike traditionally conceal.After every Harvard-Yale game, we put away our Harvard hoodies and baseball caps and return to our rivals’ insignia-wear. Buzz, excitement and pride simply dissipate. Cowed by our own fears of being rejected...
...allegations ever since they first surfaced in April, it's taking the legal procedure seriously and clearly has no intention of going down without a ferocious fight. There's even talk of a scenario in which Thai Rak Thai would strike back by demanding the dissolution of the rival Democrat Party as well, on the grounds that its boycott of April's vote and its unsuccessful appeal for a royally appointed government undermined the election. "We could both be facing the same fate," warned Pimol Srivikorn, a Thai Rak Thai spokesman. And Thailand could be stumbling into an ever deeper...
...hand and the veteran financier who could barely imagine that whips could be wielded by anyone in Washington. After Morgan departed, Roosevelt confided to Knox his bemusement at the financier's manner. Morgan, T.R. said, had acted as though the President of the U.S. was just "a big rival operator...
...Gaza standards, it was a good wedding: nobody got shot. And it was a hopeful sign that after weeks of mounting tension, the rival Hamas and Fatah factions might be looking for ways to co-exist. Even as Hamas and Fatah gunmen ready for a showdown on the empty streets of the Gaza Strip, leaders of both factions told TIME they are trying to broker a compromise, one that could lead to a power-sharing agreement between Abbas and the Hamas-backed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah. Atef Ibrahim Adawn, a long-time Hamas member who is now Minister for Refugee...
...Palestinians are quick to point out that they are not plagued by the ethnic and religious hatreds that are imploding Iraq. They stop shooting long enough to attend each other's marriages, and it's not uncommon for families to have men belonging to rival militias. In one Gaza family, three brothers belong to Fatah, one to Hamas and another to the extremist Islamic Jihad. Says one brother Shahaaf, from Abbas's presidential guard. "This civil war stuff is an exaggeration. Even as a Fatah member, I know that there are corrupt leaders in our party who must be removed...