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...play—a far cry from the 2-10 start from its 2000 season—boosting Harvard to a 22-5 overall record and a school-record 13th seed in the NCAA tournament. But those wins never came easy. They were typically characterized by early deficits and blown leads—but always comebacks...
...lengthy e-mail from an avid Crimson reader disrupted an otherwise pleasant Wednesday morning: “Tell you what, Hasan,” it began, “make it so that my relatives and friends in Israel can go about their daily affairs without getting blown to bits by your brethren and I’ll support every protest you conduct to get rid of checkpoints and punish Israeli soldiers who abuse Palestinians...
...enough—one that I’ve heard many times: the mass punishment of the entire Palestinian people is just retribution for the horrific acts of a few Palestinian suicide bombers. But what struck me was not the argument but the phrase—“blown to bits by your brethren.” When did I claim brotherhood with religious fanatics who attack innocent civilians? I thought I had spoken out in favor of peace, reconciliation and justice...
...that could not have arisen incrementally. And rather than dwell on the eyeball, he applies the term to such microscopic entities as the human blood-clotting mechanism. In his book Darwin's Black Box, Behe says this mechanism, involving more than a dozen proteins, could hardly have emerged full-blown in a single mutation. Yet it couldn't have been built one protein at a time, he says, because without any one protein it would be useless...
Penn, for all its celebration last year after winning 21 straight games and completeing an undefeated Ivy season, was blown away 100-57 by Texas Tech at NCAAs—far and away the worst Ivy loss in postseason history...