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Energy won’t be lacking on either side of the court this weekend as Harvard looks to tack on an NCAA berth to a successful regular season. Fellow first-place team Cornell is in action at home this weekend, taking on Yale and Brown in its final regular season contests. A Big Red loss and a perfect weekend for the Crimson would make Harvard undisputed Ivy champions, while a loss by each team would lead to a multi-team playoff...
...limits on the deal he'd signed with Israel, preferring to hold his movement together by saying different things among his own followers to the things he was saying in the White House and to the Israelis. All the while, he was reading the winds, ready to change tack if they shifted. And as the chasm of expectations between his own people and his negotiating partners widened, Arafat became more elusive to both sides...
...hard ones are the sort of ticky-tack ones,” Wiley said, “where nobody knows what the call is until she goes to the box and points to one side of the box or another...
...trust. Sharon's critics in the Knesset argue that any efforts to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza should be frozen until peace talks can be restarted with a new, more acceptable Palestinian leadership. Sharon's deputy and chief disengagement proponent, Ehud Olmert, says it's too early to change tack just because Arafat is sick. Sharon will have to wait and see who emerges as Arafat's successor and how strong his position is. "It could take a long time," Olmert says...
...hoping against hope, but we still have faith that Bush will choose to moderate his administration’s policies during his second term. We hope he will take a more responsible tack towards taxation, repealing or at least freezing tax cuts in order to pay off the massive deficit that this country is currently saddled with. We hope he will craft a workable strategy to win the peace in Iraq. We hope that he will choose to take measures to protect the environment and reduce global warming, instead of paying lip service to the natural bounty he will leave...