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Down the street at Ron's barbershop, where she cuts hair, Melissa Meyer has been polling customers about their feelings on Iraq. Eighty percent of them, she says, are for going to war and cleaning up a mess they suspect will only grow messier if it gets swept under the rug. Her father Bob Meyer, a retired corporate executive and a gun owner whose politics are conservative, says he can't understand the liberals and the pacifists. "They want to disarm me," he says, "but they don't want to disarm Saddam Hussein...
...mother ... I remain all alone." Dry, cracked streambeds are evidence of the unbroken drought. Some villagers are eating tree bark. More than 150,000 in the Matabeleland North province rely on foreign food aid. Here, as elsewhere, hardship is linked to politics. In the 2000 parliamentary elections, the mdc swept all eight seats in the province, its rural heartland. Last year, 61% of Matabeleland North voters chose Tsvangirai over Mugabe for President. Suffrage isn't supposed to bring suffering, but the people are still paying for their votes. "A family will walk 60 km to get maize meal...
Harvard hopes to shake off this devastating loss and bounce back quickly. Their first match will be against the University of Western Ontario, a team they swept 9-0 earlier this year...
...Crimson was swept during its road trip to Penn and Princeton earlier this month. Harvard hasn’t won at either venue during Sullivan’s tenure, but has upset Penn at Lavietes each of the last two years...
Datamatch, the annual online survey sponsored by the Harvard Computer Society, swept the campus again Friday, informing students of their top ten “most compatible” matches...