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Sophomore infielder Jeff Reynolds was 5-of-5 with seven RBI to lead an offensive attack that was highlighted by a five-run fifth inning...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Finds Hitting Groove | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...This safeguard has not stopped cultural and opposition figures from lining up to attack the new law as arcane and anachronistic. Leading the fray is the advocacy group Atheist Ireland, which in January defiantly published 25 blasphemous statements on its website by figures as diverse as atheist author Richard Dawkins and musicians Frank Zappa and Björk. "This is introducing medieval canon law into a modern pluralist republic," says the group's director, Michael Nugent. "There are other countries that do have blasphemy laws from bygone eras that are on the statute books but not enforced. Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Blasphemy Law: Worse Than Blasphemy? | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...members of the government's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were taking a break on April 6 at around 6 a.m. after traveling all night, when they were ambushed by what some officials estimate to be 400 Maoists positioned on a neighboring hilltop. The Maoists executed their attack with fierce precision, giving the soldiers no chance to react. They blew up an anti-land-mine vehicle and then began firing indiscriminately. The shocked and exhausted soldiers, who had not been able to follow standard procedures like checking the road for land mines ahead of time, were massacred within minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre Prompts Debate Over India's Maoist War | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

While admitting that it lost eight fighters in the three-hour attack, a Maoist spokesman justified the massacre in a three-page faxed statement, saying, "The CRPF battalion deployed in [Chhattisgarh] were killing innocent people, burning villages, raping women and displacing ... people. We also wanted to take revenge of the killing of our top leaders." (See how India's schools have been caught in the cross-fire in the fight against the Maoists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre Prompts Debate Over India's Maoist War | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

India is groping for answers on how to respond to the Maoist attack. Chidambaram's strategy had appeared to be working. Many top Maoist leaders, including Politburo members, were arrested, and the Maoists offered to negotiate. Their chief military officer, Kishanji - the nom de guerre of Mallojula Koteswara Rao - even gave out his cell-phone number to Chidambaram to facilitate talks. "But actually they were retreating so that they can regroup. This is how the Maoists always operate. But still we have not learned anything," says K.P.S. Gill, formerly one of India's top police officers, who advised the Chhattisgarh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre Prompts Debate Over India's Maoist War | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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