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...final Ivy showdown, Harvard men’s lacrosse will host Dartmouth to end the 2008 season Saturday at 1 p.m. in Harvard Stadium...
...free the delegates"--let them exercise their own judgment as to who should be the nominee--a tool that could come in handy again this year in Denver. "We lost; the nomination was Carter's--we all knew what was going to happen," Ickes says now. But the 1980 showdown gave rise to the Hunt Commission, which re-introduced superdelegates into the process of selecting a Democratic nominee. It is on these superdelegates that so much for the Clinton campaign rests...
...varsity stroke George Kitovitz said. “I thought there was a positive response from the boat all week. Everybody just knuckled down a bit and thought of what they could do to get us a win.”Every Harvard-Princeton race, whether an April dual showdown or a Grand Final slugfest at Camden in June, carries with it a special intensity. Saturday’s meeting on the Charles was no different.Harvard overcame an early deficit off the start with a powerful final 1,500 meters, overcoming Princeton’s early six-to-eight seat...
...April of 1959, just a few months after they'd taken control of Cuba, Fidel Castro and his younger brother Raul met at a Houston hotel for a showdown. Fidel was touring the U.S. to win support for his revolution; but Raul, according to the book After Fidel by former CIA analyst Brian Latell, insisted they ditch the gringos and accelerate plans to make Cuba a communist island. The argument got so loud and heated in their suite that aides in adjoining rooms couldn't sleep. The next morning, however, the brothers emerged as chummy as ever - and went...
...Obama should be reminded that opposing war is very different from ending it. As bad as things in Iraq might now be, anyone can see that a total absence of American troops would have terrible human and strategic consequences: no Iraqi state government, a full-blown ethnic showdown between Sunnis and Shiites, Kurdish independence leading to conflict with Turkey, and the discourse of Islamic extremism would be vindicated. In addition, this ‘Iraq-sized’ no-man’s land reminiscent of Somalia, would be between Israel and Iran. Where the proceeds of the sale...