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Hughes also had an outstanding performance in the men’s long jump, placing 12th with a 6.95-meter jump. His 7.39-meter performance last weekend qualified him for regionals...
Boston College barely missed qualifying, finishing a mere point behind the Big Green. The Eagles were actually ahead of the Bulldogs and Dartmouth going into the last set, but their A-division finished 12th in the final race to drop the team out of contention...
Harvard will be making its 12th NCAA tournament appearance, and is officially ranked as a 17-32 seed. Only the top 16 teams are seeded by the committee, with the remainder of the field being grouped into the 17-32, 33-48 and 49-64 seed categories to determine regional match-ups. The Crimson is ranked number two in its region behind the 16 seed Tennessee (14-8), which plays Boston University (11-9), ranked number four as a 49-64 seed, in the first round. Maryland is ranked third in the regional as a 33-48 seed...
...visit to U Street is complete without a meal at Ben's Chili Bowl, a neighborhood institution between 12th and 13th streets. Virginia Ali, who opened the restaurant with her husband in 1958, recommends the Chili Half-Smoke, a split-open sausage with chili, mustard and onions--the favorite, she notes, of Bill Cosby, who courted his wife at Ben's. Another great eatery is Love Cafe (1501 U), a coffeehouse that gets its sweets from the bakery across the street. For dinner, try Rice, a Thai restaurant at 1608 14th Street, or Opera, at 1324 U, for upscale Italian...
...sense of faith. Balian's faith is a wavering, sometime thing. The final decision--to make war or to chuck it--is a matter not of Christian belief but of a secular conscience. That's because Balian is less an ancient warrior than a modern statesman. As a 12th century commander, he is obliged to seize the Holy Land for the church and state he serves. But as a representative of early 21st century liberal thinking, he has to consider a decision that only posterity will deem heroic and that could deprive the genre of its natural climax...