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...Bur co-captain Louis Caputo (184 lbs.)—wrestling in a Crimson singlet for the first time this season—had by far the best showing. The fifth-year grappler reached the quarterfinals en route to a fifth-place finish, meaning that Caputo has placed every time he has attended the meet...
...past months have been tenuous. In mid-August, Pastor flew to the United States, and has been in Cambridge since, safe from the turbulence of his home country. Bur his wife and youngest son are still in Honduras. Pastor’s wife could have joined him at Harvard, but he says her job in Honduras as an anthropologist and museum director prompted her to stay...
...Exuse me”s and “I’m sorry”s and sometimes even “So sorry”s. Heading back for that wretched center aisle.Most of the folks I squeezed past were as pliant as bur reeds. I could see they were thinking how this never happened at their churches up North. They shuffled their bodies with haughty huffs but I bore it, just as I should have. But when I got to the man at the end, an elderly fellow who was more than a little tone deaf...
DEFINITION Bur-muh n. Nation in Southeast Asia that in 1989 changed its official English name to Myanmar (Meye-ahn-mahr...
...doctoral candidate Phil Larochelle, a 2003 MIT grad, launched a “HIPJ Weblog” tracking human rights abuses and progressive movements worldwide. The Weblog’s first news summary featured a link to a Zmag.org article comparing the Israeli Defense Forces to the Nazi military. Bur Larochelle stresses that his controversial weblog isn’t specifically aimed against Israel, and that it levels even harsher criticism against other U.S.-backed regimes with checkered human rights records...