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...magazines ominously appeared in the mailbox, along with almost daily missives from debt collectors. One morning the general himself appeared?in military fatigues, frothing at the mouth?and threatened to put me in a coffin. He pulled out a pistol-shape package, brandished it, then drove away. Was it a gun? Or simply a last-ditch attempt to scare...
...standing-room-only crowd which packed Brown’s Pizzitola Sports Center to watch No. 22 Harvard defeat the No. 50 Bears 5-2 was raucous—and, at times, unkind. But it did shape what Crimson co-captain Cliff Nguyen declared “the most exciting match of my career...
...matter its shape or size, the Harvard women’s tennis team just finished as dominating a season as any other team at Harvard. With a thumping of Brown on Friday and a win over Yale yesterday, the Crimson took one more step toward its second straight undefeated Ivy League campaign and clinched the Ancient Eight crown...
...projection for May. Both Bush and Blair reaffirmed their determination to proceed with the June 30 deadline, come hell or high water. They don't want to risk a delay in handing Iraqis a semblance of sovereignty. But June's transfer of power to whatever government ultimately takes shape looks increasingly like a symbolic event. As long as anticoalition forces maintain control over parts of the country, U.S. commanders have no choice but to keep troops on a combat footing. Although the violence in Iraq diminished somewhat last week, neither the U.S. military nor Iraqi intelligence sources believe that...
...choose them? Given that no objective measure is possible when it comes to human beings, we identified three rather distinct qualities among those who shape our lives. First there were those who came to their status by means of a very public possession of power. President George W. Bush is the pre-eminent example. Others, though they are rarely heard from in public, nonetheless have a real influence on the great events of our time. Think of Ali Husaini Sistani, the Grand Ayatullah of Iraq's Shi'ites, who in effect has a veto on plans to transfer power from...