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...game like this begs the question—why hasn’t a slaughter rule been instituted in the Ivy League? The Harvard football team (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) scored 41 points in the first half—more than any Crimson team since 1985—on the way to a rout of Columbia (2-6, 0-5) 55-7 at Wien Stadium on Saturday. Sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan, assisted by backup Richard Irvin, led the team up and down the field, scoring six offensive touchdowns. But the real standout plays came from...
...were around, and we were the leaders. MANDELA: I was disappointed by him because he did things that I did not expect. Such as the question of violence. I said to him that if there is anything that will create bad blood between us, it is the slaughter of human beings with government connivance. That is the one thing that has created a great deal of friction between me and De Klerk. DE KLERK: A different approach from the A.N.C. could have prevented much of the grief. Mandela could have started negotiating sooner. They should never have embarked on acts...
...pandemic can be avoided if we stop raising poultry for human consumption. Chickens can still be preserved for egg production through breeding in controlled laboratories. That is a drastic step, but it is necessary for disease prevention. If governments do not wish to do that, they should concentrate the slaughter of poultry in a few (very few) regional slaughterhouses to reduce contact between chickens and humans. The time to act is now. Casey Lim Hong Kong...
...population, and its Alawites, a minority sect that claims 12% of Syrians, including the Assads. Many Sunnis harbor bitter memories of the regime's killing of 20,000 people in Hama in 1982, while the Alawites fear that Islamist groups will someday seek to avenge the slaughter. "It's a scary thing," says Joshua Landis, an American professor who has spent the past 10 months in Syria. "We don't know how bad things could...
...central to both religions, and of his family. Attracted by the site, some 400 Israeli settlers, mostly religious extremists, live in enclaves amid Hebron's 100,000 Arabs. Mindful of a 1929 pogrom against Jewish Hebronites, the settlers fear that Palestinian self-rule will lead to their slaughter. Friedman, an Orthodox Jew from a settlement near Jerusalem, said he acted to stop any Israeli retreat in Hebron. Pumping his fist and grinning in triumph at reporters after his arrest, he repeated the nationalist chant "Hebron always and forever...