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...Harvard men’s basketball team trekked to the great white north to the land of the Black Bear. Luckily for the Crimson, it was battling the University of Maine, and its opponent’s roar and bite were less lethal than real black bears, as Harvard (5-5) grabbed a 76-63 win at Alfond Arena. Immune from the brutal storm raging in the cold outside, the Crimson got hot in the second half, making 13-of-22 shots after the break, including 6-of-11 from long range, while stepping up the defensive pressure to escape...
...Shelby is defending the industry model of his state," says Merle Black of Emory University in Atlanta, a southern politics expert. "A lot of southerners feel they've been talked down to for a long time by northern industry, so he doesn't lose any votes by doing this." Jason Ray, who has worked for both Mercedes and Chrysler in Hunstville, Ala., says the Big Three "have engineered a doomsday scenario where if they aren't allowed to continue being irresponsible with money, including the billions from taxpayers, the U.S. economy will crash. American automakers need to learn to grow...
...that southern sages like Black approve of an industrial civil war. "We're all in this recession together," says Black, who like many others is quick to note that Detroit's collapse isn't exactly good for the South, especially given the large number of auto parts production jobs that rely in part on the Big Three...
...kick off the Christmas season, the U.S. holds the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Santa Claus bringing up the rear. Black Friday shopping gets underway bright and early the following day and just over a week later comes the lighting of the nation's most famous tree in Rockefeller Center. But Americans might learn a thing or to from the Spaniards; although the Christmas season doesn't really get started until Dec. 22, they do it in style. On that date every year, children from the San Ildefonso School (once an orphanage for boys) sing a three-hour Gregorian...
Before the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, there was the papal "candidacy" of Francis Arinze. The Nigerian Cardinal had been billed as the man who could become the first black Pope, garnering loads of media attention during the run-up to the 2005 conclave when Ratzinger eventually emerged as Benedict XVI. Earlier this month Arinze, 76, retired from his top Vatican post, which for all intents and purposes ended any likelihood that he will ever be pontiff...