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...direct opposition to the Columbia game, it was Harvard that went up on Cornell in the second half, and then withstood a comeback by the Big Red before closing the deal...
Roberts knows rough-and-tumble politics well, fighting for a district made up mostly of elderly and Jewish voters, residents of the Century Village retirement community. A die-hard Dem, she has served 14 years on the Republican-dominated county commission. She has withstood criticism before, like the time she cast a vote to break a tie, allowing a zoning change that favored her dentist son. She first chose to run for public office as a young mother after reading that an incumbent city commissioner had no opponent. Kids in tow, she went down and filed to run against...
Although the toughest competition is yet to come, I think that our team will continue to impress and play as well, if not better, than it has in the last few weeks. This team has been through adversity and it has withstood the growing pains of a young roster. The Crimson is for real, and is ready to prove the preseason pollsters and pundits wrong...
...among the world's most heavily armed and proficient. Arafat's scruffy troops have neither tanks, artillery nor aircraft. But if it wasn't quite war last week, it was nevertheless a fierce mess. The exhaustive, seven-year effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiation has withstood great tests, but none as scorching as this. While regional leaders agreed to a summit this week in Egypt, their ambitions were contained by the need to squelch the bloodletting. After two weeks of violence, neither Israeli nor Palestinian leaders--nor the U.S. officials who have painstakingly nurtured their talks--held...
Harvard's network has so far withstood the onslaught, and so long as the bandwidth consumed does not interfere with academic use of the network, access to Napster ought to be maintained. The University does not have a legal obligation to block Napster. As an Internet service provider, Harvard should be protected by federal laws that properly rest responsibility for illegal actions with the user rather than the network owner. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences already prohibits intellectual property violations under its network policy; if Harvard were punished for violations of its own policies, it would feel pressure...