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Sahay hopes he and the others will gain tools that will help them spearhead the boycott at Harvard, as well as future environmental campaigns...
...this is a case of strength going against strength, since Harvard held Columbia to only 91 yards rushing on 43 attempts for an average of only 2.1 yards per carry. Harvard will count on Kacyvenski to spearhead the run defense, and hopes to be able to produce a repeat of its performance against Columbia...
...albums are not just good-hearted, they're also good listening--and almost always on the cutting edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...
...high time for the U.S. to be consistent and treat the Kashmiris the same way as the Kosovars in the wake of Serbian aggression [WORLD, July 12]. The U.S. needs to spearhead an international effort to deliver the Kashmiri people their rights. WASIQ M. BOKHARI Philadelphia...
...four, and his father often demonstrated physics experiments--"miracles I could understand"--to him as a child. At Moscow University in the 1940s, Sakharov was tabbed as one of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young minds. After earning his doctorate, he was sent to a top-secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb, "I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...