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Flanked by the forbidding walls of the business school on one side and Harvard Stadium on the other, the old road to Allston is bumpy, uninviting, and something of a thorn in Harvard’s side...
...that it, too, should be considered. Sergei Mironov, head of the Federation Council, the upper house of the federal parliament, said appeals by Chechens to the European Court would not reflect badly on Russia's image, adding: "Any citizen has the right to defend himself this way." Long a thorn in Russia's side, Chechnya declared independence in 1991, and was granted substantial autonomy in 1996. It has remained a battleground, both with Russia and over human-rights issues. In the cases accepted in Strasbourg, Magomed Khashiyev and Roza Akayeva allege torture and extrajudicial execution of five relatives by Russian...
Still, the most recent game aside, Princeton has been a thorn in Harvard’s side, especially last season when the Tigers swept the season series. But this year’s team has avoided faltering against any of the weaker ECAC teams, always managing to control the underdogs looking to upset the ECAC champion...
INVESTMENT Caught in a Bear Trap Swiss multimillionaire and bow-tied shareholder activist Martin Ebner, who has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of Switzerland's corporate establishment, sees himself as the Swiss equivalent to that patron saint of U.S. shareholders, investor Warren Buffett. Lately, though, Ebner has had a few setbacks. Last week he was forced to sell controlling stakes in four key investment funds. BZ Group, Ebner's holding company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always...
...been dragging its feet on the anthrax investigation? One person who thinks so is Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a bioweapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists who has become a public thorn in the agency's side. There has been a likely suspect for months, she claims, yet the FBI has not made an arrest. Without naming the suspect, she says he has received the anthrax vaccine, has a job that involves devising bioterror scenarios and once worked for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. That facility works with the Ames strain...