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...former NBA guard Randy Wittman, last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, was recently awarded Ivy League Player of the Week honors for his averages of 22.5 points and seven boards in Cornell’s two weekend victories. He sits at third in the Ancient Eight in scoring at 15.7 points per contest and is knocking down the three-ball at an astounding 50.8 percent clip. He leads the league in three-pointers made per game at 3.21. While Wittman represents a formidable deep threat for the Big Red, Cornell also boasts the Ivy League...
...order of malta, an ancient-Rome-based humanitarian entity whose senior members are knights and other nobles, aids victims of war and disaster, issues its own passports and holds diplomatic ties with 100 nations. In 1988 Andrew Bertie, a descendant of Britain's royal Stuarts, became its first British grand master since 1258. The journalist turned teacher upped membership, expanded relief efforts and doubled diplomatic missions...
...season quite similar to its Ivy title run a year ago. Some will say I’m jinxing the team as it looks for its third straight weekend sweep, but I’ll know better: as the defending champions sit in first place in February, the Ancient Eight title is theirs to lose. The 2007 Ivy champs dropped a road contest to Yale in late January before running the table in its remaining league slate a year ago. Lack of focus or rustiness after the three-week exam layoff, you might say, or maybe just underestimation...
...last four competitions with the Bulldogs. Tonight’s win propelled Yale to the No. 3 positions and dropped Harvard down to the No. 4 position in the CSA championships this weekend. Before the match, Yale and the Crimson were tied for second place in the Ancient Eight, but after tonight’s loss, Harvard moved to third and the Bulldogs take second place. The Crimson does not have a lot of time to prepare for the CSA Championships, which begin this Friday. But Harvard will continue to work hard as it prepares for the upcoming matches...
...Various government bodies are now squabbling over who is responsible for what is widely perceived as a botched firefighting job. Some local media reports are saying firefighters left the ancient gate early on, mistakenly believing the fire was under control. Other reports claimed the firefighters had focused their hoses on the structure's roof - which is all but waterproof - while the fire took hold below. The firefighters say they were told by the Cultural Heritage Administration, a body charged with the care of the nation's national treasures, to temper their aggression in fighting the fire, in order to make...