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...Kyle Wente's last second, one-handed desperation three-pointer had not fallen, Harvard would have been the first team since 1987 to sweep Penn and Princeton in consecutive games. Dartmouth also had an opportunity to accomplish the feat this weekend after triumphing 57-56 over Princeton on Friday night, but the Big Green lost to Penn 75-62 on Saturday night...
MIDDLE EAST Those Who Live by the Sword . . . The former Lebanese warlord whose Israel-allied Christian militia slaughtered hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 was assassinated in a Beirut car-bomb explosion. Elie Hobeika had no shortage of enemies, but initial suspicion has fallen on Israel. Hobeika met earlier last week with Belgian officials considering war crimes charges against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The potential charges, permitted under Belgian law, stem from Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when Sharon was Defense Minister and strongly allied to Hobeika's Lebanese Forces. Sharon was forced...
...sample the different perspectives offered at the College. Such an approach avoids the difficulties that come with forcing all students to learn a prescribed, arbitrary body of "necessary" knowledge--not the least of which is deciding what material to include in the canon. However, the Core curriculum has fallen well short of its goal of creating well-rounded, broadly educated undergraduates and in fact often runs counter to this mission...
Chinese have fallen for Tibet. Growing numbers of Chinese now practice Tibet's form of Buddhism, fill their glasses with Tibetan booze and consider a jaunt on the high plateau a badge of cool. Many of the Tibetan practices they ape can be as tacky as white men in redface doing a rain dance. Yet given that official propaganda has for decades blamed Tibetan culture itself for keeping Tibetans poor, ignorant and not above suspicion of cannibalism, this sudden interest shows the government's decreasing ability to mold public opinion, and the growing independence of Chinese trendmakers. "More information about...
...know why. Audits of individual income tax returns as a percentage of returns filed have fallen 81% in 20 years. Taxpayers used to have a 1 in 63 shot at being audited; now it's just 1 in 318, according to data at Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The number of levies, liens and seizures related to wages and personal property have declined 86% just since...