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...remarkable fall season of Harvard women’s tennis co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson came to an end on Friday afternoon at the ITA National Indoor Championships in Columbus, Ohio. The Crimson doubles team, which had won the ITA Eastern Regionals to earn a berth in the exclusive 16-team doubles field of the National Indoors, was edged 9-8 in the quarterfinals by Jenna Long and Sara Anundsen of North Carolina. After rallying for a come-from-behind victory over Aurelija Miseviciute and Ela Kaluder of Arkansas in their opening match on Thursday...
...phenomenal” hunger for peace, and that no Jew wants war. “I think it is ludicrous to say that there are no Israelis who want to attack Arabs when there has been an occupation for 38 years,” responded Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon. Matalon said that Israel is fighting a war on two fronts, both against the Palestinians and against those Israelis who refuse to see the world in realistic terms. To him, radical Israelis inhabit the same ideological side as the Islamic fundamentalists...
...Kashmir will spell disaster. It is his abuse of power 24 years earlier that leaves him lying in a bloody heap on the stairs of India’s apartment building. Max’s relationship with Boonyi is a non-too-subtle allegory of the clash between Eastern and Western values, and although he is clearly a foil to Shalimar, he emerges as a tragic hero. We hate him for his selfish womanizing, but admire him for being “the Resistance hero, the philosopher prince, the billionaire power-broker, the maker of the world...
...preparing for a possible influenza outbreak and increasing its supply of seasonal flu vaccines. The bird flu mutation, avian influenza A (H5N1), has killed more than 60 people in Asia over the past two years, according to the World Health Organization. Recently, the virus spread to birds in eastern Europe. Avian influenza A is currently only transmitted to humans via contact with birds. However, an influenza pandemic could begin if the virus mutated, enabling it to spread from person to person easily, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Yesterday President Bush announced a $7.1 billion plan to stockpile...
...field without dropping a single set. Her win is the third major victory and first singles triumph by a member of the Crimson this fall, after co-captains and doubles partners Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson won the Cissie Leary Memorial Tournament and the ITA Eastern Regionals. “Stephanie has certainly had a really good fall,” Harvard coach Gordon Graham said. “We could tell coming into the fall that she had really improved.” Schnitter entered the Big Green Tournament off of an impressive...