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...Harvard field hockey team, loaded with talent and experience, kicked off the new season with a pair of non-league games last weekend. Friday night at Jordan Field, the Crimson won its opener, 1-0, over Holy Cross (0-3) on the strength of a second half goal. On Sunday, Harvard traveled north to Durham, N.H., where the Crimson (1-1) gave up an early lead and ultimately lost, 3-2, to New Hampshire (3-1) at Memorial Stadium. “They’re probably very similar to the way a lot of the Ivy teams play...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Splits Non-Ivy Matches | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...Since then, at least five more U.S. attacks have occurred on Pakistani soil, and more are expected as the insurgency mounts against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. NATO Commander General David McKiernan has blamed Pakistan's inability to stop cross-border militancy for the 40% rise in attacks against U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan. As one U.S. Army officer bluntly put it, "We can't let these guys have safe havens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Stepping Up Operations in Pakistan | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...suffer food insecurity. A separate report from two human rights organizations says that nearly half the population now faces starvation, and that poor families are resorting to such desperate measures as marrying off their underage daughters to older men in exchange for food security. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has appealed for $26.6 million to help them deliver aid to 260,100 vulnerable people. The fact that the number of Zimbabweans at risk is expected to rise to almost 20 times that number "gives a clear indication of how severe the situation is and could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starvation Hovers over Zimbabwe | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...referred to some of them as "agents of intolerance," is one of them; instead he revealed that while he attends a Baptist church in Phoenix, he has not been baptized. But what about that moving POW guard story, you might ask? The one about the guard who drew a cross in the sand to share his Christian identity with McCain? That tale, it turns out, is actually a large part of the problem for Evangelical leaders. In off-the-record conversations, they complain that the story is about someone else's faith - which is one reason McCain has recently added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Evangelicals Really Sold on Palin? | 9/6/2008 | See Source »

...money, the future sociology major is trying to motivate givers by offering them a souvenir. "If you will send me $2.50 in the next week or so, I will send you a piece of my graduation gown," he promises, in a kind of collegiate variation on relics of the cross. "For $3.50, you get a piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An E-Mail Plea: Help Pay My Tuition! | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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