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...appears Chae was able to enter the premises of the ancient gate fairly easily. According to police, the 70-year-old climbed over a wall and used a ladder to enter the pavilion Sunday night, and set the blaze using three bottles of paint thinner just before 9 pm. Like many of Korea's historical buildings, the ancient gate was guarded only until the early evening. At night, a security camera was in place to keep out intruders, although homeless people have often huddled in around the structure. But the gate didn't have smoke detectors, or a sprinkler system...
...jumper enlivened the crowd and the Crimson, and the slim halftime lead served as a wakeup call for the defending league champions. After Cornell kept pace with Harvard’s two wins with a Princeton-Penn sweep on the road, the two teams are tied atop the Ancient Eight standings with matching 5-1 records. The Crimson now faces a key stretch of Ivy games on the road, with a showdown in Ithaca coming Friday night before a trip to New York City to face Columbia.“We realized that we can’t play...
...quest to become the 2008 Ivy Champions, the Harvard fencing team saw a familiar face crush its chances. As both the Columbia men and women took their spots atop the Ancient Eight for the second year in a row, the Crimson men failed to join them as they had last year, and the women failed to reclaim their past glory. After going 2-1 in the first weekend of the Ivy Championships, the men continued at the same pace to finish third overall, falling to the Lions, 18-9, but defeating Brown, 21-6. The women also finished third, losing...
...needlessly enmeshed in regional politics. An international “hotspot” for more than a half-century, the Korean peninsula still faces fiery territorial and historical debates. Most notably, genuine territorial disputes arose in 1986 after a Chinese researcher authored an article asserting that that Koguryo, an ancient kingdom long considered to be one of the first Korean states by both Korean and non-Korean historians alike, had actually been proto-Chinese in origin. While seemingly trivial, these territorial clashes cannot be taken lightly given the extreme sensitivity of both the Communist regimes in China and North Korea...
...Brad Unger said. “They gave us a shot in the arm, and that’s what we needed at that point.” But as much as the youngsters prize their minutes, they were only available because the Crimson faltered in their fifth straight Ancient Eight contest, and dropped their 14th road game in 15 tries. “Obviously, winning is paramount,” Blankenau said. “But when your number gets called you have to be ready no matter what the situation is.” —Staff...