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...town - a 10-minute drive that costs $30. We drive past another bar, A Qui La Tour? - which roughly translates as "Whose round is it?" although the driver insists it means "Who am I having sex with next?" There are also several ads for premier banking services, a weather-beaten, 1970s-era hotel offering rooms at $600 a night and a billboard hawking a new model Peugeot ($40,000) behind the slogan: "Don't think about it. Just...
...next four games to go to the NCAAs and get another ECAC championship.” In other words, the pressure is on. After last weekend’s victory against Yale, Harvard enters the contest with a six-game playoff winning streak. Although the Bulldogs had beaten the Crimson twice this season, Harvard stepped up when it really counted, defeating Yale 2-1 in Game 2 of the first round. The Crimson aims for similar success against the Golden Knights, who also overcame Harvard twice this year. “We have four wins coming into this weekend...
...Creating a commission is such an obvious idea, in fact, that the Pentagon has already beaten the White House to it. On February 23, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he was launching a panel to examine the care at Walter Reed and any other military medical facilities it chooses to examine. Headed by two former Army secretaries, the eight-member group will have 45 days to investigate and report back on its findings. Of course, it isn't being called a commission; that turf belongs to Presidents and lawmakers. The Pentagon's board is more modestly called an "independent review...
...discovery of Grant's torso overshadowed a number of brutal murders in the poorer parts of Detroit. Andrew Anthos, 72, was badly beaten on Feb. 13 while he was trying to help a wheelchair-bound neighbor stuck in the slush outside his Detroit home. The attacker, according to witnesses, had harassed Anthos as he rode home on the city bus. Before he died on Feb. 23, Anthos, who was gay, told police his killer had called him a faggot and later followed him off the bus. "We believe this was a hate crime," says Melissa Pope of the Triangle Foundation...
...police moved in, wielding clubs and throwing smoke grenades. It took several hours to disperse the crowds and restore police control over the area. The authorities later claimed that 50 protesters were detained. The Other Russia, however, states that at least two hundred protesters were taken into custody and beaten, with hundreds more violently mishandled in the street. Sergei Gulyayev, a member of the city's legislature, told the media that the OMON, Russia's special purpose militia, dragged him down as he was addressing fellow protesters so brutally that his head crashed over stone pavement and he recovered only...