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...matter that the Bruins earned a spot in the national championship game? Because just under a month ago, UCLA sent a promising Crimson squad home for the winter with a sound 3-0 defeat in the second round of the tournament. Harvard had entered the postseason as the highest-scoring team in the country and, after a gritty win over Binghamton at home in the opening round, looked like it might have the promise...
...Virtually all of this debate on the correct appellation actually centers on finding a definition that aptly describes the situation on the ground. So no matter what the word choice, every editorial board in the country has at some stage considered where they will fall on the question of meaning. And predictably, those editors interviewed by The Washington Post who still avoid using the term “civil war,” most cited definition as their defense...
...Academics are indeed inclined to agree with Ware, according to Edward Wong’s Nov. 26 news analysis in The New York Times, “A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?” Wong reports that most American scholars of civil war are in agreement with James Fearon, a political scientist at Stanford, who says, “I think that at this time, and for some time now, the level of violence in Iraq meets the definition of civil war that any reasonable person would have...
...papers pounced on the case of Aydarus Yusuf, a young Somalian who told the BBC's Law in Action program that he helps convene an unofficial Somali court, or gar, in southeast London. Controversially, one trial involved a stabbing in the community - a criminal matter over which the British court system has sole jurisdiction...
...world's best universities know the Indian passion for education is a potential goldmine and have been lobbying New Delhi to open up the domestic market for years. True, there will always be people who want to study overseas no matter what, people like Anupriya Diwan, 22, who earned an undergraduate degree in interior design at an Indian college and is now keen to study design in the U.S. "The point is exposure," says Diwan, who was at the exhibition last week to compare European colleges to her U.S. choices. "Friends who have come back have different thought processes...