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...with the home turf of Beren Tennis Center beneath its feet, Harvard exudes a level of confidence fueled by the cheering crowds that has left several dual season opponents in its wake...
...Euphrates run through villages that knew little of Saddam's regime or of the Americans, or at least they seem to care little. They live much as their ancestors did five thousand years ago, in the fertile alluvial plains between the two rivers of Iraq, irrigating their fields beneath palm trees, washing their clothes in the river, and drifting on it in canoes, tossing large fishing nets, living at a pace that appears to have been uninterrupted since civilization began here...
...moment he was closest to his goal, the floor gave way beneath...
...range, through forests of rhododendron and towering hemlock and past open views of the snow-capped peaks that have kept Yubeng in a state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their livestock, while one of the women invites us to dinner cooked over...
...they slept. Enes Gunce, 13, was pinned for 30 hours beneath the concrete rubble before being pulled out by rescuers, who used industrial machinery to cut through the bed he was buried under. Gunce had listened as his three roommates died one by one. "At first, we were talking to each other in the dark," he said. "But after a while their voices died out." Turks were outraged that the dormitory collapsed while other buildings around the school were still standing. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to pursue allegations that bad construction standards may have been responsible. - By Pelin...