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...prepared to sign a suicide agreement that causes small island states to disappear.' SELWIN HART, Barbados delegate to the United Nations, calling for tougher U.N. policies in fighting global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...because we have Vloka, but the other two are just not as experienced,” Brand said. “Overall, in the depth chart, it’s a little light.”On the men’s side, two of the three meets produced tougher competition, but the team was able to pull out wins 15-12 over MIT, 20-7 over BC, and 16-11 over Brandeis.Last year it was the Judges that crushed all hopes for a title in the first edition of the Beanpot; this year MIT added to the already mounting...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Secures Beanpot Championship | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...steep decline; inflation is topping 30%; and Chávez will have a harder time whipping up anti-yanqui< fervor among his supporters now that the more liberal Barack Obama is about to replace Chávez's conservative archenemy, George W. Bush. "Chávez is envisioning tougher times ahead," says John Walsh, a Venezuela expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "In order to gin up his base, he decided he better do this now rather than later, while he can still muster a majority of the vote. He knows that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo Chávez for President ... Now and Forever? | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...find this perplexing: Even though their hate-fed, liberty-crippling policies are no longer novel, right-wing parties everywhere somehow still give off the impression that they are better at keeping us safe. After all, if Republicans were not seen as tougher on terror, is there any chance Americans would have returned them to power...

Author: By Rajarshi Banerjee | Title: The Week After Mumbai | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...Still, for students already enrolled at Cal State - or for those lucky enough to gain admission under the tougher standards - the crackdown could ensure the quality of their education. The cap should prevent classes from getting so big that there's not enough, say, lab equipment or academic advising. It will also increase the likelihood that students will be able to get a spot in each of the classes they need to take in order to graduate, thereby saving many students from a costly fifth (or sixth) year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Financial Stress, More Colleges Cap Enrollments | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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