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...tightening the screws, as they're running out of other means." In the near future, he envisages Russia's becoming a country whose dwindling population is mired in deepening poverty, an increasingly authoritarian state, run by a handful of immensely rich people, their despotism mediated only by their wish to be accepted in the West...
...hockey team has yet to choose a starting goalie.“Even at the 11th hour here, we’re still up in the air,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 says. “None of us really know. I wish at this point we said, ‘you know what, I’ve got an inkling that this is going to be it,’ but that’s not the case.”With the absence of last year’s star goaltender, Kyle...
...Dartmouth guy loses a contact and in a feat never before seen by a sports official, the referee finds the contact! The guy in front of me in the press box: "I wish that guy was my home plate umpire." Well said, sir, well said...
...significant portion of the American population believed that two social issues—abortion rights and the rights of same-sex couples to wed—were sufficiently important to the country’s future that they turned out to vote in record numbers. While we wish, like many sensible Americans, that these two issues were not so divisive in the political arena, we believe that Senator Obama and his campaign have largely transcended what has been thus far an utterly pointless, divisive, and unnecessary social divide...
...Iraq and Afghanistan or the rise of China, the bluster of boom-and-bust Russia, the murky threat of Iran and the accelerating decay of Pakistan. Between the economic crisis at home and the geopolitical cauldron abroad, the new President's agenda will be largely predetermined. He might wish he could shrug off this dismal inheritance and devote himself to the shiny projects cataloged on his campaign website - but that's beyond his power...