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Harvard will have a busy spring break, hosting No. 14 Penn on Saturday before challenging No. 2 Duke on April 3 in New Canaan, Conn. The 6-0 Blue Devils boast the highest ranking in program history and have beaten three ranked teams in Maryland, UMBC and Navy...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Routs Eagles | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard will have a busy spring break, hosting No. 14 Penn on Saturday before challenging No. 2 Duke on April 3 in New Canaan, Conn. The 6-0 Blue Devils boast the highest ranking in program history and have beaten three ranked teams in Maryland, UMBC and Navy...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lax Routs B.C. for First Win | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...others like Rudy? Well, there's a beefed-up brunette Dawson sporting a manly "I doant wo-ant yo-r life" Texas drawl. Then, there's the new Adonis-on-the-block, a certain blond, blue-eyed, chiseledjawed Paul Walker, a.k.a. Lance Harbor, the star quarterback of the West Canaan High School Coyotes. Unfortunately, two pretty faces are not enough to save this sinking ship...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Winter Round-Up | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...then one day, just before a military victory and just after settling the question of whether daughters could inherit if there were no sons (yes), God matter-of-factly instructs Moses: "Ascend these heights of Abarim...and view the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites as their holding." When Moses has seen the Promised Land, God says, he will perish. Moses immediately acquiesces: "Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone [else] over the community." His later recollection in Deuteronomy, however, is "I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Before he dies, Moses is granted a valedictory. Tradition attributes all Deuteronomy to the period before his death, and it contains a recap of Israelite history, an extraordinary catalog of law and ritual, and a near Shakespearean exhortation to the generation that will cross into Canaan. Here is an old man's blind bitterness--"The Lord was wrathful with me on your account"--and here his prophetic dictate: "Justice, justice, shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord is giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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