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...players helped out when senior forward Christiana Lackner found herself on the bench with four fouls for most of the second half. Moretzsohn scored a career-high 12 points, including back-to-back layups from the right block with under two minutes remaining. Fellow sophomore Liz Tindal, another post weapon in Delaney-Smith’s arsenal, provided a spark with a career-high 11 points and two key long-range buckets down the stretch. Her basket from the top of the key cut Dartmouth’s lead to 5 with 13:50 to play...
...Wielgus has become the most famous victim of a process known as "lustration" - a word meaning "purification" - that is under way across eastern Europe. Embraced as a political weapon by right-wing parties against their enemies, it is targeting anyone with even remote ties to the communist past. In Poland this process has gained fresh momentum over the past year following the election of a right-wing, anti-communist coalition government led by twin brothers who began their careers battling communists alongside Lech Walesa and the Solidarity trade union movement. Cardinal Jozef Glemp, who is standing in for Wielgus until...
...forces." Both are daunting tasks. Some warlords have already dismissed the new government as a paper authority that will cease to have muscle - and therefore a point - once Ethiopia withdraws its forces. And on Tuesday, Gedi's attempt to persuade Somalis to disarm voluntarily in a three-day weapons amnesty appeared stillborn, when not a single weapon was handed in at collection points around Mogadishu. By evening, Aidid indicated the government realized it had been over-ambitious, saying it had called an emergency meeting Wednesday to hammer out a new disarmament plan and adding that the government would...
Russia has never been shy about using its enormous natural gas and oil resources - and its neighbors' lack of the same - as a not-so-subtle diplomatic weapon. Last New Year's Eve, amid icy blasts of winter, Russia's state-owned Gazprom turned off the gas on democratizing Ukraine, which has often tacked the other way from Russian President Vladimir Putin and the other former Soviet republics under his thrall. This year, however, the focus is Belarus, the nouvelle Stalinist state run by Alexander Lukashenko, a man who has tried to appear to be Putin's acolyte...
...course, key differences between the showdowns with Iran and with North Korea, but most of them work in Tehran's favor: Despite concerns over its transparency and compliance with all requirements of the international monitoring system, Iran is not currently accused by the U.N. of maintaining a nuclear-weapons program, and it remains within the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty - the Security Council's concern is that Iran's defiance of demands over its uranium enrichment program may be a sign that it is assembling the means to build nuclear weapons. (North Korea, by contrast, walked...