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...showdown with Niagara netminder, Tania Pinelli. Kauth faked right and Pinelli was fooled, allowing the captain to easily slide the puck by the goalie's pad for the score...
Last week, after a multiple month showdown that culminated in a student takeover of Tufts University's Bendetson Hall, Tufts president John DiBiaggio acquiesced to student demands and issued a letter affirming that Tufts' non-discrimination policy protects students from discrimination based upon belief. Problems of discrimination and policy ambiguities are not, however, limited to Somerville. Indeed, the recent events at Tufts call attention to the shortcomings of Harvard's own non-discrimination policy...
Harvard now looks ahead towards a showdown at No. 2 Brown on Wednesday night. The Crimson is the only ECAC team that the Bears failed to beat in their championship season last year...
...villages to flush out the guerrillas would be an uncomfortable flashback to last year's ethnic cleansing. And yet the only way to prevent that may be to move more forcefully against the Albanian separatists who'd fought alongside the West last time around, which could provoke a dangerous showdown between NATO and the former KLA throughout Kosovo. Even if NATO and Belgrade find a way of resolving the latest flare-up, the intractable conflict of which it is a symptom persists. The more things change in the Balkans, perhaps, the more they stay the same...