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Back when Mexico was still a colony of Madrid, Monterrey was frontier--much like America's Wild West, more than 200 years later--settled by a rugged cast of characters, including unmoored Jews and some in trouble with the Spanish crown, whose present-day descendants are fiercely proud of their heritage and the modern metropolis they developed. Monterrey is the most important business center in the country after Mexico City. It's as if San Antonio, Texas, went on to become Pittsburgh, Pa., skipping the Rust Belt phase. This city of nearly 4 million, often confused by Americans with...
...Harvard crowned its first Ivy League champion of the 2006-07 school year on Saturday afternoon. Needing a single win to clinch the league crown, the Harvard men’s soccer team (13-4-0, 6-1-0 Ivy) beat Columbia 3-1 on Ohiri Field, maintaining its half-game advantage in the standings over Penn. It was the fitting end to a late-season run of Crimson dominance. Harvard closed the year on an eight-game winning streak in which it averaged more than three goals per game. Paced by sensational freshman Andre Akpan and two starters...
...staying undefeated and maintaining a one-game lead on Harvard and Princeton. Princeton, meanwhile, overcame visiting Penn in an overtime thriller 31-30, a game the Quakers lost after failing to convert a do-or-die two-point conversion. Harvard can still ensure itself a share of the conference crown with a win in The Game on Nov. 18. Until then, it will have to beat Penn when it travels to Philadelphia...
Just a week after Princeton seemed to throw a monkeywrench in the engine of Harvard’s Ivy League title machine, Harvard is once again in the driver’s seat, controlling its own destiny for a twelfth league crown after Cornell’s 14-7 win over the Tigers in Ithaca, N.Y.And just after the Crimson’s 28-0 beating of Dartmouth on Saturday, a few minutes before the Princeton game had gone final, Harvard coach Tim Murphy proved that he was just a little interested in that game’s outcome...
...Last King of Scotland” recounts the terror of Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Amin attempts to keep the crown certain by eliminating any threats, but this, paradoxically, only increases his constituents’ desire to change leaders. Shakespeare understood this well, as readers of “Julius Caesar,” “Richard II,” and “Richard III” can attest. “All the King’s Men” shows the rise and fall of a charismatic populist unable to handle the mechanisms...