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Coach: Mazzoleni (16th year overall, 284-192-40; 5th year at Harvard...
...Chinese have long looked to the skies--at least since Wan Hu, a 16th century official, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair with kites attached to it, ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times...
...seeming split has huge significance. It was Hindu chauvinists?galvanized by a BJP campaign to undo brick by brick the 16th-century Mughal invasion of the subcontinent?who in 1992 ripped down a mosque supposedly built over a Hindu temple at Ayodhya; that helped propel the BJP to power on a wave of violent Hindu assertion. But upcoming polls may be forcing the BJP to distance itself from the VHP. With four state elections taking place on Dec. 1, and a general election due within the year, the BJP's more moderate coalition partners are pressing it to adopt...
...second Harvard entry placed 16th, clocking...
...with the men’s team, the Harvard women rested some of the varsity runners in preparation for next week.  Nevertheless, the team ran well and placed 16th in one of the larger fields of the year, competing against 40 other colleges...