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Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, a vocal supporter of tougher grading practices, said he was glad Gross had published the information. He was less happy, however, about the revelation that students were getting more A’s in the 2002-2003 school year...
Harvard took advantage of the relatively easy match to prepare for tougher competition...
...year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve his sentence, be stripped of his French citizenship and deported back to Algeria - which has been known to torture jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from 33 in 2001 to 64 in 2002 and 71 last year. But many prosecutions have been overzealous. In September 2002, 15 Pakistanis were arrested off the southern coast in a rusting cargo ship, charged with international terrorism...
...combination of the rust Harvard accumulated over its nearly two-month layoff for winter break, reading period and finals and its surprise at Dartmouth’s strength made the match somewhat tougher than it otherwise might have been...
...ultimately be damaged if Russia failed to address concerns about its apparent slide toward authoritarianism. And in an op-ed in the Russian daily Izvestia, Powell wrote that "certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause." If Powell was signaling a new, tougher White House policy, it has been a long time in the making. A senior U.S. official told journalists that concerns over Putin's authoritarian tendencies had been intensified by the Kremlin's crackdown on Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail...