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Despite its best efforts, the Harvard women’s volleyball team was swept last night (30-28, 30-26, 30-23) in their final non-conference match-up with Central Connecticut State in New Britain...
Less than a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left a bemused and scornful audience at Columbia University, Iran’s parliament voted by a margin of 215 to declare the “aggressor U.S. army and the Central Intelligence Agency…terrorists [who] nurture terror.” Their reasoning might seem dubious—apparently based on the U.S.’s decision to drop atomic bombs 60 years ago—but the vote provides a unique opportunity for American introspection...
...Burma's army also burnished its legitimacy in another way: It claimed to be the only force that could keep the country together. The nation is composed of more than 100 ethnicities, many of which waged wars and insurgencies against the central government for decades. Politicians, the generals asserted, represented feuding ethnic interests. In Burma's last election - back in 1990 - as many as 20 ethnically based political parties contested the polls. Who better than the military to keep peace between all these fractious tribal groups...
...Ivies with the result, while Harvard dropped to 0-2. “We need to work really hard this week,” Mahon said. “We have some big, big matches coming up.” Harvard will travel to Central Connecticut State tomorrow for its last non-conference matchup against the 13-4 Blue Devils before taking on the rest of the Ancient Eight, starting with Brown on Friday night and Yale on Saturday afternoon. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...Today, with the rise of undemocratic powers like Russia and China, Europe as a whole has little time for endlessly rotating presidencies, over-bureaucratized central institutions, or, even worse, a half-hearted foreign policy. It needs further coordination with which to augment its power, in order to guarantee the survival of the democratic values now coded in the requirements for membership. Europe needs a constitution, which today means voting for the reform treaty...