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...acumen. Brine leads the nation with 20 goals, 15 power-play strikes, and six game-winners.What has traditionally been one of the biggest rivalry games in all of women’s college hockey has been restored to national prominence in 2007 as the Crimson and Dartmouth have reclaimed spots atop the conference standings as well as in the top five of the polls after down performances last season.The two squads’ disappointing, near-.500 showings in 2005-06—Harvard wound up at 18-13-4, the Big Green finished...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Hosts Pre-Exam Conference Clash | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...Whichever companies arrive, their finds could be massive. The country sits atop about 115 billion barrels of oil reserves - the fourth largest in the world after Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran - and about 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. What is more, much of the oil is relatively easy to reach and cheap to pipe out. There is a catch, however: the infrastructure is in dire shape. Even before this war, rigs and wells had lain rotting for years, since the crippling war with Iran in the 1980s sapped the economy and international sanctions in the 1990s left Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Oil Plan for Iraq | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...certain the Iraqi government would air some kind of footage from the execution.? Failure to do so would only open the door to years of conspiracy theories about how Hussein somehow slipped away and remained alive.? By midday, screens across Iraq carried Hussein's last moments.? There was Hussein atop the gallows, surrounded by men in leather jackets and black ski masks nudging him toward a door in the floor.? Fear was plainly all over the former dictator's face as the noose went around his neck in the last of the footage the government initially released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq After Saddam | 12/30/2006 | See Source »

...size replication of the Holy Night dominates the scene. Complete with real straw, a particularly cheerful baby Jesus looks on as barnyard animals bow and respectful wise men bear their gifts. An angel with the words “In Excelsis Deo” streaming across her body sits atop the whole construction, and a painting of a blue night sky with a brightly shining north star lines the back of the manger. Another large nativity scene sits in front of the statehouse at Boston Common. With the golden dome in the background, Christmas lights...

Author: By Andrew Okuyiga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Here’s Looking at You, Kid | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...earned him the moniker “Father of American Civil Engineering.” “He was a pretty extraordinary fellow,” Edmonds said. The memorial, which consists of a triangle-shaped green, a cannon, and a six-foot tall statue of Baldwin standing atop two rectangular five-ton pedestals, was unveiled on Patriots’ Day in 1918. Edmonds first became aware of the memorial’s predicament when he learned that Middlesex Superior Court planned to temporarily relocate itself to Woburn while its permanent home, the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in East...

Author: By William M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Roadwork Threatens Memorial to Revolutionary War Alum | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

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