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...meaningless college guides by improving its yield. But that yield is already astronomically high. This move bespeaks that most un-Harvard of qualities: insecurity. If Harvard is afraid that competitors like Yale and Stanford, both of which recently switched from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige can afford to allow prospective students the maximum in flexibility. Other schools may have to scrounge desperately lock in the students they invite to attend; we don?...
That may well account for Saddam's history of disastrous miscalculations, especially in war. In 1980 he saw the revolutionary confusion inside Iran as a golden opportunity. No military expert, yet commander in chief, he thought a quick strike by his superior forces could snatch back some disputed territory from Iran and earn gratitude from Arab regimes for slaying the Persian fundamentalist Shi'ite threat. But his army failed to break Ayatullah Khomeini's revolutionary forces for eight years. Whenever they threatened to conquer pieces of his territory, he shelled them with lethal chemicals, setting a pattern of resorting...
Although Silver had a tougher time than either Hagamen or Jakus in team competition, going 6-4 in Pool C, he secured a third-place finish in the pool and won a crucial late bout to snatch the title from Columbia...
...suffocation. When outgoing President Daniel arap Moi stood, Kenyans angry at his 24 years of corrupt and autocratic misrule pelted the dais with mud and drowned out his speech with chants of "All is possible without Moi" and, simply, "Go Away." Street urchins took advantage of the confusion to snatch wallets, cell phones and cameras. "I have no clue who's in charge of the security operation," said a harried policewoman. "The army shoves people in our direction and we push them back again." Kenyans have been pushed around by their leaders for years. But the election of Kibaki...
...Texas raised the necessary money, bought the notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, and art supplies, and mailed them to Afghanistan via the A.P.O. Now four hundred children, many orphaned survivors of Taliban ethnic cleansing, come forward one by one to get their armloads of treasure. Most smile shyly; some snatch their supplies and run away, as if they are afraid they won't get to keep them. A regular Army soldier from upstate New York, Spec. Alison Kastner, tears up: "I'd just like to hold every one of them," she says. "So would I," Col. Walker replies gruffly...