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...whichever British university went home triumphant from the 153rd Boat Race on the river Thames a couple of weeks ago, with graduates rowing for both sides, Harvard was going to come out a victor...
...Being broadcast on the radio the way it was, Darrow did tend to make Bryan look like something of a goat, but then Bryan dying days after the trial made him a martyr.THC: If Bryan hadn’t died, do you think Darrow would have been the moral victor?EA: Oh yeah I think so, but there is that great appeal to all that ocean of people out there who want to believe in miracles. Darwin could be viewed as Lucifer, if they wish, denying them potential for their hopes. At that time creationism was hope, and Darwinism...
Saying that “the victor of the war in Iraq is Iran,” Madeleine K. Albright prescribed a regional approach to the problem, encouraging countries to engage in diplomacy and to realize that it was in their best interest to resolve the conflict in Iraq...
...blogs, and analysts began tallying scores and discussing the controversy as though it were over. Former officials who last week spoke in tones of high anxiety over the prospect of military confrontation have switched to talk of how soon the Britons will be released. "Iran emerges as the great victor," announced a broadcaster on state television, before adding for effect: "and I'm quoting FOX news - a notoriously anti-Iran network...
...Victor Yushchenko may have overcome Russian political interference and dioxin poisoning to win the 2004 Orange Revolution in dramatic fashion, but he may now be losing the political war of attrition to hold on to power in Ukraine. On Monday night, Yushchenko, as President of Ukraine, ordered the dissolution of his country's single-chamber parliament, the Rada, to make way for elections in late May. However, the Rada, dominated by his opponents, refused to follow the order and the controversy is now headed for the country's Constitutional Court. In almost theatrical fashion, the man standing to benefit from...