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...Gymnasium, started on Friday and will end with the championship matches tomorrow. Six members of the Crimson traveled to Princeton to compete in the 96-man singles main draw and two doubles pairs competed in the 42-pair doubles tournament. The top 32 seeds in singles received first-round byes, and the top 16 teams got a free pass in doubles. The Crimson was led by co-captains Dan Nguyen and Chris Clayton. After his first-round bye, No. 4 seed Clayton dropped only one set through his three matches and disposed of 13th seed Artem Vlasenko of St. John?...
...will come against a team with two extra weeks of preparation. Holy Cross fell by a 40-30 score to No. 3 Massachusetts two weeks ago, and the team had its bye week last week...
...bye-bye to some of your kid's favorite playthings. On Aug. 14, Mattel, the world's biggest toymaker, called back almost 19 million Chinese-made products--half of which were being distributed in the U.S. It was the fourth major toy recall to hit this summer. What you need to know about the trouble in toyland...
...Buju Banton - whose smash hit from the 1990s "Boom Bye Bye" also advocates the shooting and burning of gay men - last week signed the "reggae compassionate act" after a three-year campaign by Stop Murder Music. Banton, a Grammy-nominated artist who broke Bob Marley's record of most number one singles in a year on the Jamaican charts, pledged to "respect" the rights of gays to live without fear of violence...
...Since "Boom Bye Bye" was released in the early 1990s there has been a corresponding rise in homophobic violence in the Caribbean, although it's difficult to tell which came first - the music or the violence. According to Jamaican gay rights group J-Flag - which refuses to give out its address in the capital, Kingston, "due to the potential for violent retributions" - the rise in homophobic violence culminated in reports of crowds lynching suspected homosexuals after concerts...