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...student of history, Rice is grimly aware of how many diplomatic reputations have sunk in the morass of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. But if the U.S. intends to contain the twin threats it faces in the Middle East--an ethnic implosion in Iraq and a nuclear Iran--it needs help from the rest of the neighborhood, which will be easier to secure if Rice can make headway on the Palestinian issue. "Even if the prospects for a deal are very low, getting the process going is helpful throughout the region," says a U.S. foreign-policy veteran. "It gives breathing space...
...Harvard pivot. That tenure, despite some disappointments—chief among them the inability to compete for an Ivy title last season—will certainly be remembered, thanks in large part to this final half-season. “I really feel like it hasn’t sunk in yet,” Cusworth said. “I’m sure it will hit me real hard when I’m cleaning out my locker on Saturday night.”—Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Saturday’s nailbiter came down to the very last possession. The last eight minutes of the game had all the features of the historic Harvard-Dartmouth rivalry: countless lead changes, back-breaking three-pointers, and intense defense. But it was a simple foul call that sunk the shoulders of the Hanover faithful and brought the Harvard bench to its feet.After a sloppy pass that led to a Lindsay Hallion steal and layup, the Big Green faced a three-point deficit and fed the ball to forward Sydney Scott. But Crimson center Emma Moretzsohn stepped in and took...
...battleship was finished as well. Leyte showed that even the bulkiest battleship was no match for an aerial assault—the Musahi, one of the two largest vessels ever to enter combat, was sunk by American planes...
...Ironically, his second nomination to be CIA director was almost sunk by the same accusation the current Bush administration has faced on Iraq - that intelligence was slanted to suit hard-line policies toward an enemy. During highly charged confirmation hearings in the fall of 1991, which were unprecedented for an agency that usually keeps its bureaucratic battles shrouded in secrecy, past and current CIA employees accused Gates of cooking the books on the Soviet threat. As then-Director William Casey's intelligence analysis chief and later deputy director in the 1980s, Gates had shaped intelligence reports to suit Casey...