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Many liberals decry the idea that life begins at conception, and many conservatives champion it. Both sides, however, tend to agree that the question of when a human becomes a human eventually strays from the territory of rational argument into the realm of spirituality...
...bombers," he once said--Anderson successfully lobbied Ronald Reagan's aides to resurrect the controversial B-1, which could carry nuclear weapons and had little risk of radar detection, after it had been abandoned during the Carter Administration. He also helped devise the 426 hemi engine with which NASCAR champion Richard Petty won his first Daytona 500 race...
...reigning NCAA Champion Harvard fencing teams posted mixed results in their season debut at the Garret Penn State Collegiate Open this weekend, with the women’s team racking up an impressive tally of successes while a slightly limited men’s squad put on a lackluster performance. The Crimson’s women foilists set a blistering pace for the year to come, as junior captain and reigning junior world champion Emily Cross placed No. 1 and freshman Arielle Pensler finished No. 4. All four competing Harvard foilists finished in the tournament?...
Harvard crowned its first Ivy League champion of the 2006-07 school year on Saturday afternoon. Needing a single win to clinch the league crown, the Harvard men’s soccer team (13-4-0, 6-1-0 Ivy) beat Columbia 3-1 on Ohiri Field, maintaining its half-game advantage in the standings over Penn. It was the fitting end to a late-season run of Crimson dominance. Harvard closed the year on an eight-game winning streak in which it averaged more than three goals per game. Paced by sensational freshman Andre Akpan and two starters...
...Princeton-Cornell?” he asked after the game.Once the result went final, it meant that Harvard had assured itself of its seventh shared Ivy League title if it can manage to win its final three games of the season. For the Crimson to become the outright champion, it will need a bit of help over the season’s final three weeks.Yale, which currently stands as the Ivy League’s lone squad without a conference loss, must lose at Brown next week for Harvard to have its best shot at an outright championship. Coupled with...