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SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—Those searching in vain for parking spots amidst the snow outside Messa Rink during last night’s opening faceoff shouldn’t have bothered setting foot outside their cars...
...have been disappointed with omniscient TIME. In vain I have looked for news about Puerto Rico for the last six months...
...page, we have lamented that Harvard administrators are out of touch with students. We have called for greater student outreach when important decisions are up for deliberation. And too often, our appeals have fallen on deaf ears. But there are new indications that our cries have not been in vain...
...reverse this trend, more voices need to be heard. As in almost all aspects of free discourse and exchange, the way to limit the undue influence of one dominant group isn’t to try in vain to limit its free speech or innate bias, but to make sure that there is ample competition from other competing groups with their own biases...
...call American troops in Iraq “state-sponsored killing squads” if he likes, and assert that they are analogous to the janjaweed. I’m sure, then, he wouldn’t mind castigating as foolish those Darfurians who pray each day, in vain, for their attention...