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...Crimson extended its unbeaten streak to five games Thursday night at Lavietes Pavilion, winning 86-74 over Mercer. Harvard led by 23 at halftime and withstood a furious second-half surge by the Bears to earn the victory, which saw a number of Crimson players set career highs...
Merchant followed his career performance with a team-high 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting in the Crimson’s 76-71 victory at Colgate last Friday. He finished the week with a statline (21.5 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 53.3 percent shooting) good enough to earn Ivy Player of the Week honors...
Thanks to what seems an infinite number of ways to earn frequent-flyer miles--debit cards, long distance calls, grocery-counter promotions and the like--Americans have trillions more such credits than ever before. According to Randy Peterson, publisher of InsideFlyer.com there were 7.9 trillion unused miles floating around at the end of 2001. The '02 numbers aren't in yet, but that's still a staggering six times as many as existed a decade earlier...
When he named North Korea as a member of his infamous "axis of evil," U.S. President George W. Bush could not have anticipated just how far the Stalinist state would go to earn the label. While Bush's foreign policy team tries to stay focused on stripping Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction it may possess, the North's leader Kim Jong Il seems bent on demonstrating that his own regime is just as menacing. At least Saddam Hussein claims to harbor no biological, chemical or nuclear arms. Kim freely admits to developing nuclear weapons in violation of international...
...forum on gender, the panel of distinguished women began a traditional litany of demands only to find themselves heckled by younger women who exclaimed “How progressive is subsidized childcare if it means that I hire some poor immigrant woman and pay her less than I earn at my job?” or “Equal representation in Parliament is rubbish; any woman sitting as MP will sell us out anyway; look at Thatcher!” But though heated, the arguments lacked rancor, and all the nationalities and ideologies seemed strangely united by the vibrancy...