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...discussion came less than a month after a majority of HLS’ faculty signed a letter calling on Summers to add Harvard’s weight to the growing number of suits challenging the 1996 Solomon Amendment, which allows the Pentagon to deny federal funding to universities that thwart military recruitment efforts...
Last Saturday’s shutout was just as impressive—for a different reason, though. Cornell was able to move the football and penetrate deep into the Crimson’s half. But every time it did, the stalwart Harvard defense found a way to thwart the Big Red charge...
...bankruptcies and years of ridicule, a die-hard chain of movie-themed restaurants abandons plans for world domination to seek salvation on the Vegas Strip. The star: Robert Earl, the waggishly underdog CEO, who hopes that by opening the ultimate outlet in a flashy hotel-casino, he can thwart his detractors and restore his reputation...
...that time, American and South Korean officers were mulling military action to thwart Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions...
...Gumshoe Diplomacy The arrest of the alleged terrorist mastermind Hambali by Thai police [Sept. 1] offers the latest and best rebuttal of Bush's argument that the preferred way to thwart terror is to wage war. Afghanistan and Iraq have been invaded at the cost of uncounted local civilian lives and hundreds of acknowledged American deaths, with the capture of only a few terrorists. But during the same time, police in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand have captured terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's policy of war is largely show business. Police...