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...shots compared with the Crimson’s four. Even under so much pressure, Hoyle only allowed one goal in the period and gave Harvard a fighting chance. The Eagles didn’t get on the board unti just over six minutes remained on the clock, when Orpik drove through the Crimson’s defense and netted the first goal of the night. Harvard fought back and even showed flashes of brilliance in the second period. Shots by sophomore Michael Biega and freshman Alex Killorn came close to scoring, only to be turned away by Muse. The Crimson...
...flew to Chad and drove east to the 21st century's first war over water. Darfur, a barren, mountainous land just below the Sahara in western Sudan, is one of the world's worst man-made disasters. Four years of fighting has killed 200,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million more. The immediate cause is well known: the Arab supremacist janjaweed and their backers in the Sudanese government are waging a campaign to exterminate African and Arab settler farmers in Darfur by slaughter, rape and pillage, burning thousands of villages to the ground...
Perhaps a visit to northeastern Chad would change their minds. As I drove out to the area in spring 2007, the first sign we were entering a dead zone was the carcass of a camel. Camels can go three weeks without water in the Sahara, so the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones was an ominous sight. We entered a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders...
...good thing, though he would have preferred a different outcome. Joanna I. Naples-Mitchell ’10, the former political director of the Harvard College Democrats, said that in addition to Obama’s historical candidacy galvanizing youth voters, the failure of the Bush administration drove many to the polls too. “The convergence of several factors helped engage the youth in the election,” she said. “[Obama] revolutionized how political campaigns are run especially through his use of the Internet.” H-VOTE, an Institute of Politics program...
...first summer in the States, Cooke drove West, in a car he bought for $45, recording the country's vast grandeur and roadside vignettes with a movie camera he bought for $22. (Some of his road movies are included in the PBS show.) Destination: Hollywood. He had written to the Manchester Guardian saying he'd arranged interviews with top stars, and to the stars saying he was from the Guardian. Both claims were premature but prescient. He'd stay at the paper for the next 70 years, and he instantly befriended the cinemarati. One of his first film works, which...