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...Mavraides made one of two on the other end, then Housman was fouled, making both shots to close within two at 55-53 with 12 seconds left. Mavraides went back to the line and again just made one of two, with McNally tacking down the defensive board and racing coast-to-coast for a layup with five seconds left to make it 56-55 and set up the endgame scenario.With Housman’s miss, an intense second half that featured four ties and seven lead changes was completed to the delight of the home fans. Harvard had a five...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Edged by Princeton in Waning Moments | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

Cincinnati, Outbound. Delta is slashing fares out of its Cincinnati hub on 21-day advance purchases to cities in Florida, the Northeast and the West Coast, with discounts of up to 58% compared with 2008 rates. Fares to L.A. are going for $130 each way, down from $310 last year, or to Boston for $152 each way, down from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel on Sale: Tahiti and South America for a Song | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...experiences of a family coping with an unexpected death. Not long into the film, Trudi Angermeier (Hannelore Elsner) discovers that her husband Rudi (Elmar Wepper) is going to die. Concealing this fact, she convinces him that they need a vacation, but then unexpectedly dies herself on the Baltic Coast. Initially unable to relinquish his grief, the aging Rudi travels to Japan carrying all his money and a suitcase of his wife’s clothing in an attempt to transport her spirit to the one country she had always longed to visit. Once in Tokyo, which takes the adage...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cherry Blossoms | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...high-impact events. The short history of nuclear weapons is already scattered with unplanned and seemingly improbable incidents that suggest we feel more secure than we should. In 1995, a communication failure with the Russian Embassy led the Russian military to believe that a weather rocket launched off the coast of Norway was an incoming submarine-launched ballistic missile. In the 1980s, malfunctioning U.S. missile defense systems relayed information to U.S. officials of a massive incoming first strike - twice. As recently as 2007, a U.S. Air Force plane flew across the American heartland while unknowingly carrying several live warheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nuclear Risk: How Long Will Our Luck Hold? | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...bombing raid came as the world's media clustered in Colombo to cover what many expected to be the end of a conflict that began in earnest in 1983. The Army contends that it has cornered the LTTE in a shrinking patch of territory around Mullativu on the northeastern coast. With this attack - using a do-it-yourself plane and a couple of bombs - the whole city was plunged into darkness (the power was cut) and fear, as tracer bullets and anti-aircraft fire punctured the sky. With two planes down, this might be the last sortie from the Tamil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Surprise Attack by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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