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...Start of the Live Blog. 7:32 pm: The Saders take the stage to a jazzy rendition of Souljaboy's "Crank Dat" and begin an impressive collection of warm ups. Their stretching reminds me of the ol' West Coast standards brought into form in the '30's in Stanford and USC. Way to go boys. 7:34 pm: Good evening, Sports Fans. This is Walt Howell here (with my best friend and sports comper Troy "the Murder" Murrell), bringing you, the Harvard fan, the best coverage we can muster as your Harvard Crimson (2-2) take on the undefeated Holy...
...Annenberg Foundation has given the museum funding to study engineering and begin design of Koons' dangling Train, according to Govan, who is already calling the artwork his town square's campanile. "What a metaphor," says LACMA trustee Lynda Resnick, "for the way the West is chugging forth into the new millennium...
...Harvard football team last night at the Crimson’s annual awards dinner, marking the fourth straight defensive player to assume the captain’s role. He succeeds senior defensive end Brad Bagdis as Harvard’s captain. “I can’t begin to explain how overcome by emotion I feel right now,” Curtis said after being announced. A number of other awards were also given out at the dinner. Senior cornerback John Hopkins won the Robert F. Kennedy Award given to the team’s most hard-working...
...that glancing blow was the hardest hit John McCain scored against the Democratic Presidential frontrunner that day. Later that evening, McCain unveiled a speech that staffers said would finally begin to "draw the distinctions"between McCain and Clinton, something that advisers had been encouraging for months. The speech did, in fact, draw distinctions, but it was also a rare example of a candidate announcing that he intended "this to be a respectful debate," and then keeping - at least on his own side - his word...
...long-term consequences of this drop in violence are still unclear. The militia's recent stand-down may be just an attempt to wait out the U.S. military, which will begin drawing down its numbers in the next few months. After suffering heavy losses in pitched battles in 2004, the militia has sought to avoid open confrontations with U.S. forces. The Americans must eventually leave and the Mahdi Army will remain in some form. Still, says Sauer, "Every day that goes by without violence is a win" - a window of opportunity for American troops and their Iraqi allies to weaken...