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...country's experience. "It seems that people think we found the perfect solution." Archbishop Tutu has recently been applying the lessons to the fractured society of Northern Ireland, where he hopes bringing victims and killers face-to-face in unofficial meetings shown on television can help break the stranglehold of hatred and recrimination. Yet while Meiring says the trc was a vital part of "our healing" and "profoundly important in creating a new South Africa," he also recognizes that it was an extraordinarily painful process to many South Africans. A good portion of the country's whites considered...
...going to get a lot of clean plays for goals.”AROUND THE LEAGUEComing into the weekend, only No. 9 Cornell had clinched a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, and virtually all seeds—except for Brown’s stranglehold on last place—were up for grabs.The Big Red, who would have secured first place with two wins, knocked itself out of the league lead with a shocking 2-0 loss at Rensselaer on Friday.The upset allowed Dartmouth and Colgate, teams that both picked up four points on the weekend, to move...
...left or right, expects a quick follow-up to the Gaza disengagement or an early return to the negotiating table. Sharon's 60 years of fighting on Israel's front lines gave him inimitable clout to stand up to the minority religious-nationalist movement that has long maintained a stranglehold on national policy. "I cannot see anyone today who can build a coalition to remove settlements as Sharon could do," says Yisrael Harel, former chairman of the Yesha settlers' council...
...relevance of the female struggle in a male-dominated workplace can not be refuted, particularly when considering how much of a stranglehold men still have over workplace conditions. The controversy over University President Laurence H. Summers’ comments on the innate differences between men and women brought these questions even closer to home...
With a 4-3 loss to Brown in yesterday’s ECAC Division I Championship semifinal, the Harvard men’s tennis team relinquished its three-year stranglehold on the title. The Crimson lost the doubles point—only its third pair of Dan Nguyen and Shantanu Dhaka won, 8-5—but knotted the score at 2-2 halfway through the singles competition. Freshman Sasha Ermakov surmounted a 4-1, 40-15, third-set deficit to win at No. 2 singles, giving Harvard a 3-2 edge. His classmate Chris Clayton then lost...