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...list compiled by another panel that cited alleged ties to the outlawed Baath Party once led by Saddam Hussein. The move threatened to spark sectarian strife by angering members of the country's Sunni minority, who claimed they would be disproportionately affected and saw the ruling as an attempt to curtail their participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have moved quite a distance from Modernist orthodoxy. And a great deal of Saarinen's work, especially his adventures in fluid geometry, today looks as if it's the predecessor of theirs. It's easier now to regard his expressive buildings as a principled attempt to reconcile the Modernist drive to purify and clarify with the abiding human desire for something that strikes other, warmer and no less essential chords. (See pictures of modernist architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eero Dynamic | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

With less than a minute on the clock, Harvard pulled junior goaltender Ryan Carroll, giving itself a two-man advantage in a last-ditch attempt to send the game into overtime...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Third-Period Surge Can’t Deliver Victory | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...crucial missed opportunity came early on for Harvard. About halfway through the first period, an attempt at goal by sophomore forward Alex Killorn managed to sneak its way behind Kalemba, but the puck hit the post and didn’t have the power to make its way across the line...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Third-Period Surge Can’t Deliver Victory | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Amaker threw a number of different defensive looks at Foote in an attempt to slow the big man down. Amaker sent four different forwards to cover Foote man-to-man throughout the game and also switched to zone defense on several possessions...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hyped Contest Turns Into Blowout | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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