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...winning streak is over. With its loss at No. 2 New Hampshire on Friday night, the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team suffered its first blemish of the season. The Crimson entered the contest with a perfect 11-0-0 record and the nation’s longest winning streak. It was the longest streak in Harvard women’s hockey history since the 2003-04 squad won its first 11 contests and went undefeated through its first 14 games en route to the NCAA title game. “The monkey is off our back...
...stained glass window could provide. But then again, they also wanted to eat.How, then, could they satisfy these both the most base and most cerebral of yearnings? They thought long and hard. Finally, an electronic courier proclaimed an event of capital proportions: “Subject: Gingerbread House Contest RIGHT NOW!”The theme: architecture around the world. Our protagonists knew they had happened upon the solution to their twin problems. They would build a gingerbread house that would not only satisfy the common hunger, but would also lift the spirit in the manner of great constructions past...
...Rafale jets it promised," says Andrew Brookes, military analyst for the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "It's like buying a car that no one has bought from a showroom." For the same reason, France has been squeezed out of the arms industry's hottest contest underway - a $10-billion deal to overhaul India's Air Force, with 126 new combat jets. Military analysts believe India will choose between Russia...
Ever since 18-year-old Ishmeet Singh won the glitzy American Idol-inspired Voice of India contest on Star TV last month, the phone hasn't stopped ringing at his family's home in Ludhiana, the busy industrial hub of Punjab. But the kudos is about more than Singh's impressive singing prowess; he has earned it by the fact that he is a keshdhari (turban-wearing) Sikh. "It is his sabat-surat [appearance conforming to the Sikh ideal] that has brought him where he is today," says his proud father Gurpinder Singh. "He has shown other Sikh boys that...
...opened in many cities, and an organization called Akal Purakh Ki Fauj has brought out "smart turban software" to help users identify the style of turban that would best suit them. Turban-tying competitions are held across Punjab on Baisakhi, the Sikh New Year, and a Mr. Singh International contest is held for turbaned Sikhs every year - as all Sikh men use the surname 'Singh,' which means lion - in which participants get points on how well they tie their turbans. Sikh clergy are to meet this week for an annual convention at which their battle plans will be refined...