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...pass from co-captain Nicole Rhodes, made a quick turn, raced down the flank, and struck the ball into the corner of the net with her left foot. Baskind leads Harvard with three goals and eight points this season. After the goal, Boston College controlled the tempo and maintained almost all of the possession for the rest of the game. “It would be good if we got more possession,” Mann said. “[The Eagles] were just throwing players up, so it was hard to keep the ball.” Leone agreed...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defense Holds Against Ranked Local Foe | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...grow more rancorous. While Zuma's supporters have long claimed that their leader is the victim of a political conspiracy orchestrated by Mbeki, on Saturday it was Mbeki's supporters who decried the party's harsh treatment of the departing leader. "This has been a brutal internal coup, almost," Mbeki biographer William Gumede told a South African radio station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Africa's Mbeki Resigned | 9/20/2008 | See Source »

...ballot as soon as early voting begins in their state. After putting up with the race for this long, one would think, Why would voters head for the polls before even hearing the two presidential candidates address each other directly in a debate? Then again, after being subjected to almost two years of near endless campaigning and media coverage, the option of just voting and being done with it all may be harder to resist than either candidate's pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Sounds the Starting Gun for Early Voting | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...largest bailout in government history unfolded in almost dizzying waves over recent days, a very different view prevailed at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, an outpost of free-market, anti-government thinking located just a few blocks from the newly aggressive and highly interventionist Department of Treasury in downtown Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Would Ayn Rand Have Done? | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...irony in that rise is that Austria has rarely had it so good. Growth and investment have easily outpaced the E.U. average for years; banks are profiting from new markets in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The capital Vienna, flush with tax revenues, looks almost imperial again. Much of the country's prosperity is a direct consequence of one of the far right's most cherished bugbears: the E.U.'s expansion towards the east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria's Far Right on the Rise | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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