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...ability to slow the Big Red running game—which entered Saturday ranked tops in the Ivies—the Crimson never threatened Cornell’s lead.Harvard added two touchdowns in the fourth quarter on runs by Dawson and O’Hagan to avoid being shut out for the first time since 1998, but by then the game was all but over.“Harvard has really been an excellent program, something to really compare yourselves to,” Knowles said. “And for us to be able to beat them...
...laws. Indonesia should ban J.I., enabling the country's security agencies to move decisively against it. And it should clean up the radical madrasahs that breed extremists, subjecting them to tougher law enforcement and pressuring Muslim religious and educational organizations to police them. In the Philippines, the authorities should shut down training camps through intelligence-led military action and through talks with the main Muslim militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...Gore's 1988 presidential campaign. Launched a women's-studies lecture series at her alma mater. In the absence of a paper trail, with almost no law-journal articles and relatively few case filings to scour, the fight came down to two main issues: competence and character. "Just shut up for a few minutes," advised Senator Lindsey Graham to the critics after he met with Miers on Capitol Hill. "Give the lady a chance, to find...
Despite what the President said earlier last week, a quarantine would probably not be an effective solution for a bird flu that has become pandemic. It is hard to tell who is sick because humans are contagious before they show symptoms. And communities today are much too interdependent to shut down their borders for months on end. (Quarantines worked to control the SARS epidemic because SARS is much less contagious than flu and has a longer incubation period.) That doesn't mean we won't have quarantines. "Politicians will be under a lot of pressure to demonstrate that they...
...home or in hospitals, would be kept apart from healthy people. Caregivers would need to use masks, if there were enough of them, and other barriers to prevent infection. For the rest of the population, large gatherings might be discouraged. Schools, malls, churches and sports events might temporarily shut down--although even that would be of questionable effectiveness...