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...Harvard 39-26, and further added to their numbers by capitalizing on the numerous Crimson turnovers to score 27 points. Despite a career-best 23-point contribution from junior forward Evan Harris, Harvard fell to the Bulldogs, 83-71.“We certainly battled them until the dam broke about four or five minutes before halftime,” Amaker said. “I thought it was just a stretch there where they blew it open and ignited things and got out in transition.”A large rally by the opposing team translated into another loss...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Finishes With Ivy Matchups | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard mailing list to which I subscribe, an impassioned 28-message e-brawl broke out. The subject was the relevance of the most visible attributes of our new dean—her race and gender—to her appointment...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Noble Lies | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Pike County,” one of the most touching and hopeful on the album, Costello’s observation that “the sun broke through after years of darkness” shows that he has hopes for a better world. The female backing singers, with their “hoo, hoo” support, add additional levels of sweetness to a beautiful song...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The OaKs | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...opposition Popular Party has repeatedly attacked the governing Socialists for not doing enough to eradicate ETA. The conservative party initially lent its support to the 2006 peace process, but soon began criticizing the government's strategies. And after ETA broke the truce by blowing up a parking garage at Madrid's Barajas airport in December of 2006, killing two, the PP has sharply criticized Zapatero for continuing to "negotiate with terrorists" and lying about it to the Spanish people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing Chills Spain's Election | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...troops and Iraqi security forces is much the same approach used elsewhere in Iraq over the years, with mixed results. Absent, however, is one key aspect that shaped progress in other places over the past year: local volunteer security forces who, in many cases, were nationalist insurgents who broke with al-Qaeda in Iraq. U.S. officials say that strategy won't work in Mosul, because standing up bands of irregulars could inflame existing ethnic and sectarian divisions in the city. So many U.S. military officials see provincial elections as a way to sap the insurgency's strength in Mosul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Mosul on the Mend? | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

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