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...Quakers boast a whooping 11 returning players and four starters, including center Katie Kilker and All-Ivy guard Jewel Clark, who have impressed so far on the court. It’s early in the season, however, and the chance for the rest of the league to challenge Harvard is still months away...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard unfazed by challenges against nation’s elite | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

This year UHS has been boldly advertising their massage and relaxation program, with advertisements that dangle on the window of the UHS pharmacy. “10 minute massages for $10,” the posters boast, reminiscent of the cheap beauty parlor ad campaigns that speckle the streets of New York...

Author: By Emily S. High, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Knot Your Typical UHS Experience | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

Some are modest. Some boast loudly. All are dreaming an impossible dream, and doing it with a straight face. A small yet high-profile set of Harvard students want to be President of the United States of America. They are not joking...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet the Presidents | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...Like Herman Yau?s ?Untold Story,? Billy Tang?s ?Dr. Lamb? is based on a true case. Southeast Asia can?t boast many serial killers; Wong Chi-hang may have been the only one in Macau history, and Lam Go-wan in Hong Kong?s. Both were remarkable for reasons other than their sociopathy: Wong evaded the police for nearly a decade, and Lam carried out his victims? dismembering and packaging in a cramped apartment he shared with a half-dozen family members. As in ?Untold Story,? Danny Lee (who gets co-director credits on both films) plays the tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...political indecision. Megawati hasn't addressed the nation to explain the grave challenge Indonesia faces or attempted to rally its populace behind a crackdown on terrorists. Most crucially, she has given a cold shoulder to Indonesia's two largest Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, which together boast some 70 million members. These were her most obvious allies in reining in Islamic radicalism, yet she has alienated them at precisely the wrong time. The chairman of one, Muhammadiyah, initially backed the President's tough post-Bali line. Now he's backpedaling, particularly on the arrest of Ba'asyir. "I reject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sketchy Response | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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