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...made solid contributions in the middle weights. The Crimson had a hard time in dual meets partly because of serious injuries to its top wrestlers. Preston, who took the first semester off, was set back by a knee injury, but especially devastating were Ogunwole’s triceps tear in January and sophomore Andrew Flanagan’s injury a month later that also knocked him out for the remainder of the season. Harvard finished with a 5-8-1 dual meet record, and tied for fourth in the Ivies with a record of 2-3. But when it came...
...Meanwhile, the unifying effect of the soccer snub certainly has its political advantages. "We can use this to overcome our regional differences," commented 16-year-old Sandra Reyes, reflecting on the east vs. west internal conflict that threatens to tear apart her country...
...Iraq debacle, that option is simply not on the table. Despite the sanctions announced Tuesday by President Bush, the coming months will see more horrifying news of massacres from Darfur, more wrenching refugee tales, more urgent calls for action. And the reason the Darfur crisis will continue to tear at the world's conscience isn't simply because of the scale and cruelty of the atrocities there, but also because the global community either won't or can't do enough...
Students skirmished with policemen across Venezuela on Monday, and continued dodging tear gas and rubber bullets on Tuesday, protesting what they called diminished press freedom. But if you were one of the many Venezuelan television viewers who don't get 24-hour news channel Globovision, you might not have seen the protests. That's because besides the station available only on pay cable outside of Caracas and Valencia, other networks barely covered the demonstrations...
...Sufism has deep roots in Sudanese culture, and its influence is strikingly at odds with the oppressive Islamist political ideology that has long fueled conflict here. In the early 1990s, Sudan counted itself among the most rigid Islamist governments in the world: Riot police tear-gassed overly festive wedding parties, and the regime's determination to impose its harsh version of sharia law on the more Christian South helped to drag out the war. Its chief ideologue, Hassan al-Turabi, notoriously helped to radicalize Osama bin Laden during his years living in Khartoum...