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Critics who have lodged a federal complaint against Harvard’s new sexual assault policy filed new papers in their case last week, accusing the University of attempting to subtly spin the meaning of the new procedures...
...Some believe, however, that the disjointed diplomatic tango between Washington and Pyongyang could yet spin out of control. Already the crisis seems to have advanced further than a similar U.S.-North Korea impasse in the 1990s. That encounter?also centered on North Korea's nuclear-weapons ambitions and characterized by a series of alarming moves by the North?was eventually resolved in 1994 when the U.S. came to the bargaining table. North Korea agreed not to build bombs, and a coalition of nations agreed to supply the North with...
...they're on form, and they almost always are, everyone else is roadkill. That would include Namibia, which, along with Canada, is the newest addition to the now 14-team tournament. Australia is led by its captain, Ricky Ponting, and Shane Warne, one of the world's greatest spin bowlers. But the team appears to have a bottomless well of batting talent, and behind Warne's trickery is a trio of fast bowlers who can do just as much damage. Among other potential heroes to look out for: England's Marcus Trescothick and India's pint-sized maestro Sachin Tendulkar...
...ocean separates himself from the scrutiny of his editors and a weekly allotment of 400 words is his to use on whatever topic he pleases. The column is even published uncensored, so as to preserve all that is genuinely American. The objective was to get the Harvard spin on Oxford and eventually to set up an exchange—Natalie Toms, Fenster’s editor at the Oxford Student, wrote her first piece in last week’s Crimson...
...probably fancy themselves Andy Warhols: pop artists who make the stuff of mass culture and commerce into art, as Warhol did with the Campbell's soup can. Dick Wolf thinks of himself as the Campbell Soup Co. The man who runs the Law & Order empire--on which, thanks to spin-offs and cable repeats, the sun never sets--had a first career in advertising, writing copy for the likes of Crest toothpaste. So it is without irony that he often compares his cop shows to the red-and-white can. "If you like soup, and you see the brand...