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...modern power elites thrive by forgetting any regrettable past. This amnesia is easy at Harvard, where the legal fiduciaries operate in secret and need not answer for their acts. They are the antipodes of the selfless institutional servants who built Harvard and other great American enterprises, and they bear close watching...
Playing in front of a loud crowd of 1,125 to celebrate NJIT’s Education Day, the Crimson dimmed the opposition right from the tip-off with a 7-0 run to open the contest. The Highlanders were able to close the gap to 11-7, but Harvard used a soul-crushing 17-0 run to bring its lead...
...Just hours before their final debate, Coakley went on the offensive on Monday, saying Brown would move the country backward to "the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney Administration" if elected. On Tuesday she's expected to fly to Washington for a fundraiser - an unusual move so close to an election, and one that has fueled speculation that she's in real trouble. Adding to that image is a last-minute TV ad buy in Boston and Springfield by the Massachusetts Democratic Party; that push is likely financed by Washington Democrats with money sorely needed to defend vulnerable incumbents...
...Akhlaq was shot dead, along with his 24-year-old daughter, at his Lahore home in 1999 by an unstable roti vendor who also wounded Akhlaq's close friend and student Anwar Saeed, visiting at the time. Saeed's robust, homoerotic work shares his mentor's primordial vision. In swaths of deep blues and thick yellows reminiscent of Chughtai's watercolors, which themselves echo the primal Fauvism of Henri Rousseau, Saeed paints a semiclad man surreally clutching a large fish (The Principle of Delicacy). He also draws two men in romantic embrace, one with the fly of his jeans suggestively...
...Crimson could not close out Friday as well as the day began, falling to the Scarlet Knights in Newark, N.J. Freshman Tony Buxton (141) provided a boost for Harvard, opening the match with an 11-0 major decision. Coupled with a 6-3 decision for Keith, the rookies demonstrated their full potential...