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...Rhoads took over. When Rhoads joined the Crimson, he set a goal of not only becoming the best team in the Ivy League, but also the best team in the entire Northeast. This year, Harvard achieved both, finishing the season as the top team in the region and placing 18th in the NCAA Central Regional Championship in the heat of Austin, Tex., after reaching 15th place at one point during the final round. Rhoads is a full-time teacher of the game, not just a college coach, and was recognized for his outstanding work by being named 2008 New England...
...Summers, who recently returned from a week in Israel with his wife and step-daughter, recalled attending the 18th birthday party of a friend’s child during the trip and hearing the teenagers discuss their impending conscription into the armed forces. (Israel requires men and women to serve time in the military upon reaching the age of majority...
...stress of raising an average of seven to eight children while holding down a job is too much to handle. Haredi men place a higher value on spiritual learning than on money or possessions; devout husbands, who wear black hats and long-tailed coats modeled on those of 18th century Polish noblemen, are expected only to study. And when they are abusive, their wives often cover up to preserve the family's honor. Says Ragen: "You hear the Haredi women say: 'I took the stain on me so that my husband could be as white as snow...
...members of the separatist terror organization on May 20. According to reports in the Spanish media (which the Interior Ministry will neither confirm nor deny), police followed Jose Antonio Barandiaran, former mayor of the Basque town of Andoain, to a meeting he held with Lopez in France on May 18th. Two days later, gendarmes burst into a Bordeaux apartment and arrested Lopez and the others...
...genuine threat to eight-term Republican incumbent Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Martinez, in fact, has so far been able to match Diaz-Balart in fund raising - and new reports that Democratic voter registration growth is significantly outstripping that of Republicans in Miami bodes ill for the G.O.P. in the 18th and 25th districts as well...