Word: southern
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Instead of a giant coming-out party, Harvard's southern campaign became something of a Picket's Charge, and left the Crimson reeling in the wake of two double-digit defeats, including an embarrassing 75-51 setback to Princeton on Saturday in which Harvard never appeared to have a chance...
...gape at the prosperous neighborhoods of Bellevue, Laurelhurst and Washington Park. "They used to drive by nice areas to show us what you would get if you worked hard and went to school," recalls Frank's younger brother Michael, now the regional sales manager for an online service in Southern California. Each of their children attended college; all but one graduated...
Both the Times and the AP suggested that the tragedy might prompt what they consider to be the inevitable "question" of Israel's presence in southern Lebanon. If this question is to be raised (which was doubtless one objective of the Times and AP articles), then the basis of their inquiry is misinformed. The Times, the AP, and others fall into the trap of drawing a parallel between this incident and Israel's defensive involvement in Lebanon where, in fact, no such connection inheres...
...Times and the AP echoed the silent and unsympathetic consensus among Arab officials which was enunciated best by Lebanese Foreign Minister Farez Buez, who said that Israel should learn a lesson from the helicopter crash, and realize that it is time to leave southern Lebanon. He said the occupation of southern Lebanon had cost Israel more than all the war with the Arabs. The head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said, "The crash was a success granted...
Obviously, the Israeli government is reluctant about its presence in Southern Lebanon, which only the will to survive necessitates. Tremendous hazards would befall Israeli civilian communities living in Northern Israel were Israeli troops to retreat from their positions. The doubts created by the Times, the AP, the foreign minister, the Sheikh and others raise the insidious moral question of the legitimacy of Israel's southern Lebanon positions, and hence, are an attack upon Israel's right to self-defense...