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...however, held tough and fought off Kadir, winning the set Emboldened by the shift in momentum, Chu proceeded to roll through Kadir in the third set, which he won 6-2. That match clinched the championship, which Harvard had failed to win as host the past two years...
...changing the subject is getting harder to do, as more voters are coming to believe that the question of a fundamental shift in U.S. defense policy is at least as important as the value of their 401(k)s. Al Gore's speech in San Francisco last Monday was a stinging indictment of the Bush policy--made more powerful by the fact that as a Senator he had been one of the few Democrats who supported the first President Bush's war with Iraq. "By shifting from his early focus after Sept. 11 on war against terrorism to war against...
...second big momentum shift came in the third quarter. After Lehigh had scored on its first drive of the second half to cut the Harvard lead to 28-21, the Mountain Hawks held the Crimson on its next possession and had an opportunity to drive for the game-tying score midway through the quarter...
...fence," says Mariah, a refugee from Liberia who lives in a makeshift camp in Abidjan. Into this confusion, France last week sent some 70 soldiers from the 11th Parachute Brigade to set up a tactical headquarters for the 1,000 French troops already deployed. The troops' arrival marks a shift in France's policy toward her former African colonies. In the past, France regularly sent soldiers to prop up governments and dictators close to Paris. But following criticism of France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide - France allegedly continued to arm and support Rwanda's Hutu-led government even...
...flaws in Britain's libel laws. "The main problem is that the defendant who is sued has to prove truth," says expert Geoffrey Robertson. This, he says, invites plaintiffs who are "prepared to lie and know that the media can't prove otherwise." In the absence of reforms that shift the burden of proof, says Robertson, piecemeal measures will have to suffice to protect freedom of expression: "One of the few things that can be done is to punish people who use libel laws as a form of gold digging. Those caught lying in the course of libel actions should...