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...much more to Traoré’s music than this simple reduction. With her accessible melodies and infectious personality, Traoré certainly has an appeal for those under 40. College students take note or else African music will remain just another stereotyped interest waiting to be put on “Stuff White People Like...
...Harvard that came out on top for its biggest win of the season with effective special teams play.“I thought we did a lot of good things and when you play good teams, even when you do a lot of good things, they can put you under a lot of pressure,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “Cornell played an excellent game, and we have a lot of respect for them.” POWER PLAYDespite holding a 20-shot deficit to the Big Red on the night...
...Hardly an auspicious moment, then, for Obama to put his stamp on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, but a commander-in-chief doesn't always have the luxury of choice. As a senator, Obama had criticized the "surge" of nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq two years ago. Now, as commander in chief, he has begun ordering what may turn out to be a similar increase into Afghanistan. Of course, he had maintained on the campaign trail that Afghanistan, not Iraq, was the "right" place to wage war on terror, but his strategy review reflects the fact...
...chips are down, only a tyrant will do. Generations of Russian dissidents braved prison, execution and revolution to rid their nation of czars. And the Founding Fathers so feared czarlike power that they fashioned a government intricately checked and balanced. Hard to imagine Madison and Mason agreeing to put the really difficult problems in the hands of unelected superstaffers...
...desperate move to deal with an intractable radical insurgency, the Pakistan government said it will impose a form of Islamic law in the Swat Valley, located in the northwestern corner of the country. As a result, Islamabad's faltering military campaign there has been put on hold, and the militants have agreed to a tentative cease-fire. But many observers fear that, far from calming the conflict, the government has capitulated to the Islamist guerrillas and set a worrying precedent - one that will surely displease the U.S. officials who want the Pakistani government to take a harder line against militants...