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...days. Back in May 2003, I had been reporting on a massacre of villagers, including several boys, by Indonesian troops, and I knew that Irwandi, like thousands of other Acehnese, had been tortured by the security forces. But the governor wanted to look ahead. "I have shaken hands with my torturers," he said. "Of course, I won't forget. You can never forget." And my role in his arrest? Any hard feelings? "No," he laughed. "It was part of my life then. Those were the risks I had to take." His life now presents a new set of challenges...
...gutsy effort by the Harvard men’s tennis team could not lift the Crimson past Northwestern in its home opener on Friday, as the Wildcats squeaked past Harvard in a contest that came down to the last set on court one. Though the Crimson appeared to have shaken off much of its early-season rust, Harvard fell, 4-3, to a Wildcat squad that was at times overpowering, at times too quick, but very often beatable. With the overall score 3-3, the Crimson’s hopes rested on the shoulders of No. 1 Chris Clayton...
...easy from here on out and we knew that Colgate was a good team,” Chu said. “We didn’t have the poise with the puck that we would have liked.”HARVARD 9, CORNELL 1Harvard looked to have shaken off the Beanpot loss from the outset of Friday night’s game, blowing out Cornell, 9-1, at Lynah Rink.“It was just one of those games where the puck found its way to the net for us,” Chu said...
...killed bankers, business titans, jurists, bureaucrats and policemen in a delusional campaign of "armed struggle" aimed at revealing a fascist core beneath the self-satisfied mien of West Germany's democratic institutions. In those "years of lead," West Germany seemed hopelessly at war with itself, its self-confidence shaken to the core...
...Lord Balfour said thoughtfully. ''There is not enough to go around.'' In the Middle East there is a permanent struggle over the meaning of justice, and the answering virtue of mercy is not much at home. The result has been a drama of mutual follies -- of fierce immobilities interlocked, shaken now and then by spasms of violence. In her book The March of Folly, Historian Barbara Tuchman argues that through the ages governments have shown a propensity to pursue policies contrary to their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss...