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...impressive assist by Tay sparked a 10-0 run that gave Harvard a 24-8 lead.The lead did not stay comfortable for long, though, when Yale’s Jamie Van Horne drained a few three-pointers. She finished the first half with five shots made from downtown and helped Yale cut Harvard’s lead to five by the first buzzer.Though Van Horne had the hot hand in the first half, Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith thought the Crimson could have done a better job containing a good shooter.“[Van Horne] is a three-point...
Harvard’s defense also had difficulty with its traditional nemesis, the three-point shot. Thanks to quick-release sharpshooters Caleb and Nick Holmes, who each hit a pair of trifectas, Yale was 8-of-15 from downtown for the game, compared with just 3-of-15 for the Crimson—a difference that perfectly accounted for the 15-point gap between the teams at the end of the night...
...filled with steel pellets, exploded minutes apart in two buses near the Christian town of Bikfaya in the Lebanese mountains 20 miles north of Beirut. The blasts killed three people and wounded over 20, heightening tensions a day before hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are expected to converge on downtown Beirut to commemorate Rafik Hariri's murder two years ago. Hariri condemned the explosions as an "act of terrorism" that aimed to "fill the hearts of people with fear." "I can't tell you that they [the perpetrators] haven't succeeded. People are worried," he said...
...Apart from attending the memorial beside his father's tomb in downtown Beirut Wednesday, Hariri will be confined to his massive fortified home, forced to stay there by security concerns. "I live between the second and fourth floors of this building," he said with a regretful look. "It has been a difficult two years. It's been difficult because for me my father was also my friend, and tomorrow is the day where I will be remembering the good moments I had with my father, remembering his beliefs, his teachings, his smile, his love and his care." Does he still...
Ambulance driver Hussein Mohammed (not his real name) never knows which van he'll get when he arrives for his shift at the dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...