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...such a dramatic finish, it’s great.”The dramatic finish that McGeary alludes to is the epic 15-0 run Harvard went on in the dying minutes of regulation and through an overtime period to give the Crimson its first win since Jan. 8th. THE COMEBACKIt was turning out to be just another typical performance in a long line of disappointing finishes. Princeton’s Noah Savage had just buried two free throws to put the Tigers up eight with two and a half minutes remaining. Little did anyone in Lavietes know that...
...only reference available in English at that time. Keene's feat was stupendous. Just over a decade into his study of the language, he navigated more than a millennium of its finest compositions - the creation myths of Japan's oldest book, the 7th century Kojiki; early poetry from the 8th century collection Manyoshu; the sublime socio-psychological epics by the legendary 11th century Heian court ladies; Zen-inflected 14th century battle tales and Noh dramas; haiku, travelogues, kabuki and puppet plays of the Edo period (1600-1868); and the panoply of modern novels, poetry and plays from the Meiji...
According to many commentators on Latin American politics, the failure of last week’s referendum on proposed amendments to the Venezuelan constitution represents a welcome reprieve from the country’s (leftward) drift away from democracy. In a December 8th editorial provocatively entitled “Authoritarians in the Andes,” The New York Times celebrated Venezuelans’ rejection of Chavez’s “power grab” ; a few days earlier, our very own paper relayed economist Ricardo Hausman’s call for continued “vigilance?...
...Islamists prefer large, spectacular attacks, and the Corsicans usually blow up empty structures as a warning - or gun down foes when those warnings fail," says independent terror expert Roland Jacquard, who notes he has no firm idea who was behind Thursday's office attack in Paris' 8th arrondissement. "Basque terrorists have the kind of technical expertise to build such a surgically small bomb, but why would they be using it against a law practice? What little evidence we have suggests whomever was behind it was going after someone inside that office...
...Beats: New York’s home of underground hip-hop, located at the corner of 6th Ave. and 8th St., Manhattan, on the second floor. Shiftee’s favorite record store...