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...said. “[Turner] is one of our toughest competitors, if not the toughest competitor on the team, and the guy he played was on fire. It’s one of those days [where] you just try to win with the hand you’re dealt, and it was unfortunate for him to run into a guy who was just playing unbelievably...
Maori activists called Brash a "dirty racist" and mocked his "Ku Klux Klan speech." He'd "set out to be divisive," said Prime Minister Helen Clark. And succeeded: "For quite a long time there has been a consensus about how issues affecting Maoridom are dealt with," Clark said. "That consensus appears to be shattered." So does the one about next year's elections. Before Brash became leader, polls put National's support at just 27%, far behind Labour's 45%. Last week National had shot to 45% while Labour was behind for the first time in four years...
Oren and Blumberg dealt junior intercollegiate No. 8 Reggie Schonborn and freshman No. 21 Eduardo Pereira their first collegiate losses...
Students leaving foreign locales for Cambridge have long dealt with a disappointing drop in the number of transportation options open to them. Tokyo’s longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas...
...Okusanya feels more than just adulation for Harvard’s artistic community. “The dance space issue,” he says somberly, “needs to be dealt with.” He complains that limitations on studio space hinder undergraduate creativity by forcing groups to cut back on the numbers of dancers they can accommodate. “The dance space issue creates a situation in which not everybody or anybody who wants to gets an opportunity to be expressive. It’s just a total logistical nightmare...