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...Prince says. “I don’t think I ever really got back into the swing of things defensively my sophomore year.”Following a 2008 season that saw the Crimson go 10-30—leaving many with a bitter aftertaste—Prince devoted himself tenaciously to sculpting his game, with the hopes of aiding a massive Harvard revival. After spending the summer playing offseason ball in Texas, the junior feels he has made key improvements.“[Texas] was a good opportunity for me to get out and work defensively...
...tiny West African country plunged into a political power vacuum. At that moment, the long-time president of the country was shot dead in his home just hours after an armed attack on the military headquarters killed his Army chief of staff. The two men were adversaries in a bitter power struggle, one that had fueled a civil war in the late 1990s...
...health officials in the developing world at a loss totaling more than $253 million - not counting the millions spent on R&D. That's added up, the firm reports, to more than 550,000 lives saved. In late January, the company unveiled the first pediatric dose of Coartem - less bitter and easier to swallow than the adult version - which is expected to help in the battle against a disease that kills more than 700,000 children under 5 each year...
...even on his own, Bibi would be a bitter pill for the rest of the region to swallow. Netanyahu ran on a platform that would bring the peace process to a halt. His stated policies would continue the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, would brook no discussion of sharing Jerusalem as a joint capital between Israel and a future Palestinian state and, instead of negotiating for a two-state solution, would focus on "economic peace," in effect giving Palestinians jobs but not their land...
...defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel not bailed at the last minute to attend - oh, bitter irony of the red-carpet campaign trail! - a bris. (See pictures of Winslet in her 10 best roles...