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That would be the last time until the game was well out of hand that Penn would threaten the Crimson end zone. Both Walker and McDermott—who would enter the game briefly to begin the third quarter—failed to move the ball effectively following that first drive...
...Sharon won Knesset approval for his Gaza withdrawal plan with the support of left-wing and Arab parties. But his right-wing bloc split. The crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism was God's work because it reclaimed the land of Israel...
...first place, wielding religion as a political tool is unacceptable and downright wrong. The idea that each person should be entitled to his or her own judgment of who to vote for is demolished when religious leaders threaten the fires of Hell—how can anyone argue with that? You can always find conflicting political “advice” from non-religious sources, but by nature you can’t argue the facts against faith. Religion is simply less accountable to logic. The alliance, formalized or not, between God and a particular political party should...
...memos with forged Board of Elections letterhead have been sent to some voters informing them that if they registered through Democratic and NAACP drives, they would be ineligible to vote. In South Carolina, election officials have warned voters to ignore fake letters purporting to be from the NAACP that threaten voters with arrest for outstanding parking tickets or for failing to pay child support...
Already the standard bearer for single-season performances—his 14 rushing touchdowns and 15 total scores through six games give him one more in each category than Chris Menick ’00 managed in 1997—Dawson will also threaten a pair of career marks before the year is out, though he is just a sophomore. Harvard’s career touchdown mark—29, held by Mike Giardi ’94—will fall after four more Dawson trips to paydirt, paving the way for the demolition of a record that...