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...victory in today's game--which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the IAB--would match the seven game victory skein of the 1970-71 season. That string is among the longest in Harvard basketball history: even director of intramurals Floyd Wilson, who coached the hoopsters for more than a decade beginning in 1954, can't remember a long streak...
...basketball team has a streak of its own--six straight wins, the longest since a seven-gamer in 1970-71. That skein is on the line this afternoon, when the hoopsters meet Merrimack at the IAB in a 2 p.m. start. Should the Crimson win, the resulting seven-game streak will tie the longest streak in Harvard history...
...battlefield carnage and destruction, the most conspicuous political casualty of the war may be the cause of Arab unity. The conflict has created a tangled skein of improbable alliances and rivalries. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the conservative oil sheikdoms of the gulf are aligned with radically socialist Iraq; Libya and Syria, which have predominantly Sunni Muslim populations, have sided with Iran, a non-Arab nation of Shi'ite Muslims. Last week these tensions within the Arab world reached a critical point...
...Foreign Affairs Committee, the full House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But last week Carter won the final set and with it the match-for the time being at least. The Senate voted 48 to 46 to allow the Administration to sell uranium to India. The skein of defeats and the closeness and bipartisan nature of the final vote in the Senate reflected the complexity of the issue, which involved a clash between principle and pragmatism over the way the U.S. should control the sale of nuclear materials abroad...
...misguided. The decline is being used to support a self-serving and self-defeating course. Indeed, the recent European attitude toward the Soviet Union has been so cautious as to verge on neutralism. The backdrop to the conflict between the U.S. and Europe is an old skein of misapprehensions and reproaches, failed hopes and even disappointed loves that can only be compared to an ancient family quarrel: tediously familiar, yet ever fresh in its capacity to wound. On both sides of the Atlantic, one regularly hears the ritual incantations about a joint cultural heritage. Yet America is, at most, only...