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...said Caples, who, despite the team’s lackluster performance thus far this year, is confident. “Given where we started this year and where we are now, this team has grown tremendously.” Caples emphasized repeatedly that her team’s strength comes from its fortitude. “I’m proud we kept fighting, we learned that you create your own luck and your own breaks...
...author’s Nobel Prize lecture, which discusses the worth of nuclear weapons, suggests that the strength of nuclear weapons comes from their storage, and not their use. North Korea, for example, can gain more from stockpiling its arsenal than it can from bombing a peaceful country. Countries with nuclear weapons should ideally use them to put pressure on other countries rather than explode them and run the risk of retaliation, writes Schelling. He also wonders how America’s changing view of nuclear weapons will affect its use of them. It would have been nice...
...force it through Congress over the objections of moral and knowledgeable opponents. We suffered a great loss of life and property on 9/11, but the attackers damage us far more by inciting us to compromise our standards to match theirs. The bill is not an act of courage, strength and resolve. It is an act of fear and desperation. Craig Littlefield Tucson, Arizona, U.S. The Right Force for Darfur Peter Beinart's essay "How to save Darfur" [Oct. 2] addressed the moral concerns reasonable human beings in the free world have toward what is happening in Darfur. A military force...
...When Seeing Is Not Believing" [Oct. 9]: Alarmed by the growing strength of fundamentalist religions, Andrew Sullivan suggested that "moderate," "tolerant" and "humble" believers hold the key to religious peace and sensible politics. Nonsense. When in history has religion, however moderate, prevented or eliminated the ignorance and abuses of zealotry? Even a liberalized interpretation of the Bible, Koran or Talmud offers no guidance on human rights, constitutional guarantees, parliamentary democracy or international law. Those conventions and compacts had to be worked out by painstakingly applying unaided reason to the messy affairs of the real world. If we are to survive...
...Ithaca.The come-from-behind win against Columbia snapped a four-match losing streak for the Crimson (9-10, 3-5 Ivy). The team hoped to use the momentum from the tug-of-war against the Lions to take down then-third-place Cornell but was overwhelmed by the strength of the Big Red’s hitters. Junior co-captain Laura Mahon linked the mixed results this weekend with the Crimson defense. “[Against Columbia], we did a good job establishing the block and so the defense around it played well,” Mahon said...