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...Yesterday] it was a little colder a little windier. Overall it was pretty fair.” Next weekend, the team will travel south to New Jersey for the Ivy League Championship, the focal point of the men’s season. Penn will return to defend the title and the Crimson will look to improve on last year’s fifth-place finish. The Ancient Eight will gather to play the Ballyowen Golf Course in Hamburg, N.J., a links-style golf course known for its few trees and fast, undulating greens. In this weekend’s tournament...
...exactly "ideal." But the heat generated online by the ad does reveal that the war and resultant redrawing of the map 160 years ago can still spark a furor on both sides of the border. Thousands of critics accused the ad of being anti-American and took pains to defend the inclusion of the southwestern states into the union. "It is absurd to believe that the U.S. stole Texas and California since most inhabitants of the Southwest considered the 19th century Mexican government a totalitarian regime and wanted independence, and rightfully so, from Mexico," wrote a blogger who signed...
...light of the enormous contributions that Harvard and other Ivy League schools make to society, the fact that they must defend themselves so rigorously against public scorn is absurd. Far from serving as a bastion for the elite, the Ivy League has spearheaded the recent movement toward socioeconomic diversity in higher education. Rather than reinforcing social stratification, Harvard and its sister institutions promote social fluidity by generously subsidizing those students who could otherwise not afford a university education. Providing financial assistance to over two-thirds of all undergraduates, the University can no longer be accurately labeled as a club...
...Basra not to surrender their weapons unless it was to a government committed to expelling U.S. troops from Iraq. That defiance echoed the statements of a commander of one Shi'ite Islamist group in Basra, who told TIME that his fighters were prepared to use suicide tactics to defend Basra from the "occupier...
...Basra has no water, no electricity and no food. The sons of Basra have decided to form groups of martyrs to defend Basra and all of wounded Iraq," said Abu Thar, a commander of the Abu Fadil al-Abbas group, whose videos of attacks on U.S. troops are commonly found on Sadrist websites...