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...discovery of Grant's torso overshadowed a number of brutal murders in the poorer parts of Detroit. Andrew Anthos, 72, was badly beaten on Feb. 13 while he was trying to help a wheelchair-bound neighbor stuck in the slush outside his Detroit home. The attacker, according to witnesses, had harassed Anthos as he rode home on the city bus. Before he died on Feb. 23, Anthos, who was gay, told police his killer had called him a faggot and later followed him off the bus. "We believe this was a hate crime," says Melissa Pope of the Triangle Foundation...
...road three weeks ago. Against archrival Dartmouth, the Crimson was crushed in its first meeting, 4-1, but salvaged a 2-2 draw on Jan. 12 at the Bright Hockey Center. But before the team can even worry about Sunday, it first must survive a brutal test against St. Lawrence. “We are playing one game to play another.” Sifers said. “There’s no tomorrow. That’s the sort of mentality we’ve had all season and now it’s actually coming true...
...most brutal half of basketball Harvard has played all season begot the biggest win of the year for the Crimson, as the men’s basketball team roared back from a nine-point halftime deficit to beat archrival Princeton, 50-43, on Saturday night at Lavietes Pavilion. After scoring only 12 points in the opening period, Harvard dashed off a 15-0 run early in the second half to take control of the game and gain vengeance for the team’s double-overtime defeat at Princeton on Feb. 9. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak...
...Germany, hardly came to its rescue. Gerard Schroeder, then Germany’s chancellor, seemingly so idealistic in his opposition to the Iraq War and his shunning of George Bush, cultivated a close friendship with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president. He never criticized Russia’s brutal suppression of Chechnya and even negotiated an agreement between Russia and Germany to build a natural gas pipeline that punitively bypasses Poland—the Baltic gas pipeline, placing Warsaw in a precarious economic and political position. But no one heard any complaints from Poland’s EU partners...
...fact, Cordesman fears that the brutal Shi'ite control of Basra and southern Iraq will spread to greater Baghdad and make the already bad situation there that much worse. Shi'ite militias in the capital appear to be standing down and not challenging U.S. and Iraqi forces as they attempt to quell the bombings and bloodshed that have gripped the city for the past year. That leaves insurgent Sunnis as the main target of the effort. "In effect," Cordesman says, "both the U.K. and the U.S. may end up acting to expand Shi'ite influence in very different ways." That...