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Last night in a nearly-empty TD Garden, the Harvard men’s hockey team (6-14-3, 6-7-3 ECAC) met Northeastern (13-12-1, 8-10-1 Hockey East) in the consolation game of the 58th Beanpot, falling, 4-1, in a contest that lacked energy and spirit...
Standing in the way of No. 5 Harvard (15-5-4, 11-5-2 ECAC) will be No. 9 Northeastern (16-6-5, 8-5-4-3 Hockey East), the all-time Beanpot title leader with 14 wins...
...Farnsworth, a partner at a high-profile Manhattan law firm, is afflicted with sudden bouts of uncontrollable walking. Despite the strong deterrent of an East Coast winter and the responsibilities he may have to his family and job, Tim walks for hours—unsure of his destination, unable to stop, and unconcerned with his bodily pains. Eventually these hours become years. Despite countless visits to doctors and more dubious specialists, the cause of the walking remains unknown and the disease unnamed, thus the novel’s title...
...Both sides predict the fight for Marja could be brutal, with belts of IEDs believed to be buried along all major approaches to the town. Unlike earlier battles over towns and villages further east, where many Taliban are from Pakistan, the enemy in Marja is largely local, which will further complicate the fight. "It's harder to separate the enemy from the people," a Pentagon planner says, "when they are the people." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...prepares to launch the offensive, he's got one eye on Marja and the other on the calendar. If he and his forces prevail, it will serve as the template for the far more challenging battle this summer for the Taliban capital of Kandahar, about 100 miles to the east. Success in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second largest city, would mean that McChrystal is on track to achieving Obama's ultimate goal: to start sending U.S. troops back home in July...