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...proposal has met with resistance, both from professors, who defend Feldstein’s course as sufficiently balanced, and from some students who signed a counter-petition arguing that the competing classes would segregate students along ideological lines...
...year in which the nearby Boston Red Sox have begun to question the traditional wisdom of using a single closer, Wahlberg and the Crimson are posing a strong counter-argument. With a slew of veteran relievers—seniors Brendan Reed, Matt Self, Ryan Tsujikawa and others—available to bridge the gap between the starters and Wahlberg, Harvard will look to its bullpen to lead their team to unfamiliar territory...
...Kirkuk is ground-zero of both Turkish and Kurdish ambitions in northern Iraq. The Turks' primary concern is to counter the ambitions of Iraq's Kurdish nationalists - although the Kurdish parties that have governed the section of northern Iraq liberated from Baghdad in 1991 officially deny they plan to seek an independent state, that goal has long been an organizing principle of local Kurdish politics. And Turkey, fearful that even formalized Kurdish autonomy in Iraq would stoke secessionist passions among its own Kurdish minority, has threatened to send its own troops into the region to keep a lid on Kurdish...
Harvard responded with a goal from Johnson with five minutes remaining, and McBride tallied another goal off a Kane assist, but the Crimson rally was not enough to counter Penn?...
Ignited by timely treys from junior forward Hana Peljto and captain Kate Ides, the Crimson chipped away at the Wildcats’ 19-point lead, knocking it down to just eight. However, Harvard’s success from behind the arc was not enough to counter Kansas State’s accuracy from the free-throw line and the Wildcats held...