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...game, before Harvard responded with a 51-yard scoring pass from Pizzotti, who finished with 284 yards on 16-of-27 passing, to sophomore Matt Luft—to finally finish off the Big Red.“Anyone who knows football knows it’s such a tenuous thing, momentum,” Knowles said. “We felt like we didn’t have it, then all of a sudden, we had a rush. We had our chance, but we just didn’t make enough plays to keep it going...
...General Ban Ki-Moon has said that the more the international community pressures Sudan to comply with the ICC, the more likely it is that Sudan will renege on UNAMID deployment. But this is completely wrongheaded—it is precisely because Sudan’s commitment is so tenuous that further international pressure is crucial...
...political dissidents and union activists who kick-started the protests on August 19 have been jailed or are in hiding. But detaining the religious clerics who have taken up their cause will be accepted with far less equanimity by the devout Burmese public. If shots are fired, the tenuous peace that has existed between a cowed populace and its oppressive leaders may finally be shattered. "A tiger is being unleashed," predicts Aung Zaw, editor of The Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based news magazine that covers Burma...
...Unfortunately, even today, the rights and security of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians are tenuous at best. These stateless individuals, who make up more than 60 percent of the Dominican Republic’s agricultural workforce, are often confined to working villages called bateyes, which are essentially labor camps. A 2007 report by Amnesty International described the Dominican Republic’s 400 bateyes as having living conditions “among the worst in the country,” without access to “the most basic public services such as health care, education, running water, and a sewage...
Hoping to maintain the tenuous peace between Taipei and Beijing, which considers the island an inseparable part of China, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte has called Chen's proposal "a mistake," urging Taiwan's leaders to "behave in a responsible manner." China's Taiwan Affairs Office warned that it has "made necessary preparations to cope with any serious situation" across the strait. Yet the criticism does not seem to have dampened enthusiasm for the referendum. On Sept. 15, more than 100,000 people rallied to support the idea in Taiwan and New York City. And Chen--whose government...