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...Another lesson is flexibility: When Unionists dumped Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble as their leader, Blair adapted the process to bring in Paisley. He also employed "creative ambiguity" to get over the toughest hurdles by letting each side believe they were scoring points. Even today the central question of whether Northern Ireland will ultimately be British or Irish remains unresolved, but the matter will be settled in politics...
...direction at some point during the day, and it made racing difficult. We only had four races on Saturday, and some that were sailed should not have been sailed.” The 13 combined races over the two days resulted in 139 total points for Harvard, 12 behind winner Boston College. Dartmouth’s 164 points earned the Big Green a third-place finish, while Yale took the last spot at nationals with 177 points in fourth place. Brown rounded out the top five with 186 points. “Just like the past few weekends, our main...
...memory must forever be respected. But they died liberating Poland because Stalin and Hitler had carved up that country in 1939. A real tragedy of the war was that Soviet soldiers "boldly entered foreign capitals and came back to their own one in fear," to quote the Nobel Prize Winner poet Josef Brodsky. They destroyed Nazism, but, in a bitter twist of history, their heroism in defense of the Motherland also shored up another despicable tyranny. And having liberated the countries of Eastern Europe, they installed a new occupation...
...taught us to expect from big studio movies. It has a touch of romance, a touch of suspense and a touch of wildness as it recounts the misadventures of on Huck Cheever a professional poker player whose roiling, yet buttoned-down, emotions prevent him from being the big winner his talents entitle...
...fate sealed by a rout in a game of “Guitar Hero”—the Grammy-winning group received a consolation trophy depicting a basketball player attempting a slam-dunk, with a plaque that read: “Nicholas D. Kristoff [sic], Pulitzer Prize Winner, Spring 2006.” Meanwhile, vocalist and guitarist Damian Kulash said the audience shouldn’t feel cheated by the lack of musical performance at last night’s event. “This will be remembered long past any rock concert you could?...