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...purported remains were declared authentic by the Church before being sent to Chinon in 1876. The town played an important role in the saint's life as it was at the royal court of Charles VII in Chinon where she convinced the king to send an army to defend the city of Orl?ans from the invading English. Leading these troops into battle, St. Joan later emerged victorious from the siege. The tests on the relics took around a year to complete and were led by Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at the Raymond Poincar? Hospital in Garches, near Paris...
...Championship Series sweep last May. It was the junior right-hander’s first victory of the season, his first in over 11 months. And it came over Tigers ace Christian Staehely, who was named the preseason Ivy League Pitcher of the Year despite Haviland returning to defend the honor he claimed in 2006. In the near-freezing temperatures at O’Donnell Field on Saturday, Haviland went eight-plus innings in the nightcap, allowing three runs and striking out four, as the Crimson salvaged a doubleheader split with Princeton with a 6-3 triumph...
...five years. Only Hicks has been tried, and prosecutors have indicated plans to charge only 75 to 80 of the nearly 400 prisoners. Despite the purported danger of the prisoners, holding them indefinitely and refusing to formally charge them flouts the principles of justice that the U.S. claims to defend. Hicks’ sentence raises further questions about how dangerous the prisoners of Guantánamo actually are. He was given only nine months in prison—a sentence whose brevity calls into question why he has been held for five years. Further, the gag order in the plea...
...This is how it goes now. Planned Parenthood clinics lose money to help fight cancer because their parent organization has an image problem: Every time they have to step in to defend abortion rights, it reinforces the impression that that is their main mission. This makes them an easier political target, since overwhelming majorities of Americans favor access to contraception: a Wall Street Journal poll last summer found that 81% of Catholics and 75% of born-again Christians favored providing access to birth control as a way to reduce the need for abortion...
With a national championship, All-Americans, an Ivy League title, and Junior World competitors, the Harvard Fencing team would seem to have no problems breezing into NCAA Championships to defend its title. But after last year’s fairy tale performance, Harvard has to deal with the pressure of entering the tournament as defending champions this weekend in Madison, N.J., without a full 12-person team...