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...know that blacks were human. His nephew had fathered a child by a black woman. The child, Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, lived with Mansfield and his wife. When war came, his much discussed decision in favor of the slave was taken by African Americans as another incentive to wish Britain well...
...Will full-scale war break out? The L.T.T.E.'s political head in Trincomalee, S. Elilan, says the Tigers are ready to unleash attacks that would be "catastrophically disabling and devastating to the enemy," but adds that the rebels have no wish to "adversely affect the peace process." Government defense spokesman Keheliya Ram-bukwella speaks of "coordinated retaliation" that will "continue as long as the L.T.T.E. targets the security forces." But President Mahinda Rajapakse, a nationalist, declared himself a "man of peace" last week...
...three, upping his team-leading RBI total to 39.As visions of a comeback lingered, Faiola was finally lifted in the ninth for Big Green reliver Chris Lapointe. The Dartmouth senior has now thrown 292 pitches over his last two starts—“something I would not wish on any man,” Haviland joked after the game.But if the Big Green can’t sweep Harvard tomorrow, those pitches will also be his last.The doubleheader begins at 1:00 p.m. in Hanover, N.H.HARVARD 2, DARTMOUTH 1It took awhile for the Crimson to push across...
...wish, for the sake of literature in general, that every gifted writer had the clout required to get his or her work out there like Viswanathan did. So my reaction of disgust to the entire affair is not premised on jealousy, but injustice. The disillusionment comes not from plagiarism but from the blatant (mis)use of social power...
...Talking to Hume, Snow did not back away from anything in particular, and tried out an easygoing but unyielding style. "There are probably a lot of people in the press room who from time to time say, I wish I hadn't written or said that," he said. "Here's the key. When I will be giving advice to the President, it will be my advice. And if I have differing opinions with some people, I will express them. But on the other hand, the job as press secretary is not to come in as a surrogate President...