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...race tomorrow after a race like that.” Junior Alex Lewis also competed in the meet, taking 13th in the heptathlon. For the women, junior Danielle Mirabal finished 14th in the pentathlon. Juniors Sally Stanton and Clara Blattler placed 10th and 12th in the pole vault. The meet was a chance for the athletes to compete against a large variety of teams. “It’s a high level of competition with a lot of great teams,” Green said. “It’s a great atmosphere and a pretty...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Illness, Injuries Lead to Poor Performance | 3/4/2007 | See Source »

...just an engagement party. We called the event at our Queens apartment last August 12th an engagement party for my brother and his new fiancé. My brother, his fiancé, my mom and my dad (Pops) and I invited every friend in the tri-state area for a fun afternoon of catching up and celebrating.But we didn’t come together just to celebrate my brother’s engagement. Everybody except my cousin’s toddlers knew why we got together on that hot afternoon. Two weeks later, we repeated the event, but this time without...

Author: By Bob Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Engagement Party | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...attacks in the third. Senior Kevin Du supplied an insurance goal 6:08 into the third period, when he crashed the net on senior Ryan Maki’s shot and slotted the rebound past Dekanich, giving the Crimson a 3-1 lead. Maki finished the scoring with his 12th goal of the season on a power-play opportunity, tipping in a Morin shot at 15:39 to complete the 4-1 victory. One of the highlights of the game was the Harvard defense and penalty kill, which kept Colgate to five shots on goal in each of the first...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Offense Regains Rhythm | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...strict form of the faith, is considered an offshoot of Salafi Islam.) By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith, incorporating the Hindu, Buddhist and animist traditions that had flourished before Islam arrived in the archipelago in the 12th century. Some 88% of Indonesia's 245 million citizens are Muslim, and the vast majority of those would label themselves as moderate. Indeed, the country was founded in 1945 as a secular state protecting the rights of the nation's non-Muslims, now 30 million strong. But as Indonesia's wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Prayer | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...religious leader, imperial patronage helped make Sunni Islam the dominant sect. Today about 90% of Muslims worldwide are Sunnis. But Shi'ism would always attract some of those who felt oppressed by the empire. Shi'ites continued to venerate the Imams, or the descendants of the Prophet, until the 12th Imam, Mohammed al-Mahdi (the Guided One), who disappeared in the 9th century at the location of the Samarra shrine in Iraq. Mainstream Shi'ites believe that al-Mahdi is mystically hidden and will emerge on an unspecified date to usher in a reign of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

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