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...rough, physical game, Harvard produced one of its most consistent efforts of the year, netting a goal in each period to top Yale (7-5-2, 5-3-2), 3-2 in front of a crowd of 2,801--its largest of the season...
...rough neighborhood like the Middle East, realpolitik is law. Countries do not pursue peace for the sake of peace alone. The current peace negotiations between Syria and Israel in Shepherdstown, W. Va., are no exception. In fact, reasons abound for both countries not to seek peace with one another. Confrontation with Israel has been the linchpin of Hafez el-Assad's authoritarian regime. Ending the state of war with Israel will deprive Assad of the very prop that legitimates his non-democratic rule. For Israel, peace with Syria means relinquishing the Golan Heights, a strategically vital buffer zone that saved...
...Gray Davis, a Gore man, "is that they are disdainful of the process. The rat-a-tat Bradley despises is what politics is. This is what it takes to run for President now." Bradley sometimes seems nostalgic for a politics that never was. American elections have always been pretty rough. The Thomas Jefferson-Aaron Burr battle of 1800 was a major slugfest, and during the 1956 Democratic primaries, Estes Kefauver accused the sainted Stevenson of Mob ties and racism. (Kefauver lost.) As a student of history, Bradley knows all that, but he's gambling that voters actually mean it this...
...watched its astounding ascent from $212, when the S&P announced its newest pick, to $348 at the bell, I came to the somewhat sad conclusion--at least for a trader who thrives on identifying diamonds while they are still in the rough--that trying to game the S&P may be the single biggest way to make money in this wacky market...
...write this because the athletes here at Harvard have it rough and we should all pity them. Not at all. There are advantages and disadvantages that come with playing a sport...