Word: ancients
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When Hertsgaard travels to western Ethiopia and sees starving Dinka refugees--tall and reedlike--there's not much to say except that life is cruel. They were driven from their home in Sudan by drought and war, and these are ancient, traditional plagues, not modern inventions. It is in Bangkok, strangely enough, that the message of Hertsgaard's journeying begins to strike home. This sprawling river city is like most others--mad about cars, paralyzed by car traffic, its air made unbreathable by cars and its municipal life dying of cars. If this were all, the moral would be simple...
...match-up in tonight's game at Cornell (5-6, 0-0) will be in the post. Cornell senior center Jeffrion Aubry is ninth in the Ancient Eight in scoring at 14.2 points per game (ppg) and, with his 6'11 frame, third in rebounding at 8.7 rebounds per game (rpg). Aubry made this week's Ivy League Honor Roll by pacing the Big Red with 22 points and 14 rebounds in last Saturday's loss at Army...
...Crimson will also get its first look at Big Red freshman point guard Wallace Prather, who has twice been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week and is third in the Ancient Eight with 4.1 assists per game (apg), while scoring at a clip of 11.4 ppg. But Harvard will counter with senior point guard Tim Hill, who leads the conference with 6.9 apg and leads the team in scoring at 15.7 ppg. Against St. Joseph's, Hill became the third player in school history to record more than 500 assists in his career...
Harvard's main challenge Saturday night at Columbia (5-7, 0-0) will be containing senior guard Gary Raimondo, who is fourth in the Ancient Eight in scoring at 16.2 ppg and sixth in rebounding at 6.4 rpg. Forward Erik Crep made this week's Ivy League Honor Roll and is second on the team in scoring...
Cornell and Columbia will be Harvard's first league opponents in what is the most bizarre opening weekend in years. No Ancient Eight team has a non-conference record above .500; Dartmouth currently sits atop the standings...