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...Friday night’s win at Yale, did not play against the Bears. Co-captain Emily Tay, the team’s second-leading scorer at 11.4 points per game, had just three points on 1-for-5 shooting from the field. But the Crimson’s bread and butter this season has been sharing the load: in each of its 12 wins this season, Harvard has had at least three scorers in double figures. Saturday night was no different: freshman point guard Brogan Berry led the way with 17 points, and sophomore guard Christine Matera came...
...Easter Sunday of 2008, 11-year-old Kara Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin, suffered waves of nausea as she lay motionless on her deathbed, too weak to walk or speak. Kara's parents - both followers of the Unleavened Bread Ministries, an online church that shuns medical intervention - knelt in prayer beside their dying daughter. They did not call a doctor for help. A few hours later, Kara died of diabetes, a relatively common - and treatable - condition...
...reckless endangerment against Kara's parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann. The couple protested on grounds of religious freedom, but Judge Vincent Howard of Marathon County Circuit Court ordered Mr. and Mrs. Neumann to stand trial this spring. If convicted, each faces up to 25 years in prison. Unleavened Bread Ministries immediately released a statement saying the couple is being unfairly punished for the "crime of praying." (Read the top 10 religion stories...
...Nujood finally found her moment to escape one day, when her mother gave her a few pennies and sent her out to buy bread. Instead she took a bus to the center of the capital, Sanaa - a city of 3 million people - where she hailed a taxi and asked to be taken to the courthouse. She had never been inside a courtroom but had once seen one on television, she says, and knew it was a place where people went for help. There she sat silently on a bench, uncertain as to what to do, while crowds of people scurried...
...entirely by 2012. Reagan was lucky in that way. Obama is facing more difficult problems and might not be so lucky. But at least, for the moment, he is paying his public the great compliment of taking his job seriously, focusing on the long-term substance rather than the bread and circuses that masqueraded as leadership in the recent past...