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...running into a wall. With a little over 11 minutes remaining in the first half, Crimson freshman point guard Jeremy Lin knocked a ball loose at halfcourt and threaded a perfect bounce pass through three Yale defenders to a cutting Drew Housman (16 points, one assist, five turnovers), whose fast-break layup gave Harvard a 24-13 lead and forced a Yale timeout as the Harvard bench jumped to its feet in celebration. But the team effort dried up almost immediately. Harvard was outscored 75-54 the rest of the way, with its matador-like defense allowing Yale to shoot...
...games—just because of the man-to-man that we’ve been facing.” Cusworth and Goffredo led an offense that drained a season-high 61.2 percent of field-goal attempts and shot 46.7 percent from behind the arc. Thanks to a fast offensive start, Harvard led by as many as 14 points with 4:36 left in the first half, the Crimson’s largest lead of the game. The half ended with Harvard leading 40-31. The Crimson’s defense fared well against Brown’s top player...
...Ethiopians are no use. Coming from a majority Christian country and an old enemy, the Ethiopian soldiers must go - and fast. Most Somalis view their presence as an outrage, and they are a first, and very vulnerable, target in any gathering Islamist insurgency. Moreover, Ethiopia's successful invasion will have raised the hackles of regional rival Eritrea. The two sides have previously fought proxy wars in Somalia by backing rival warlords, and there is no reason why Eritrea would desist...
...past aside, I asked my Shi'a friend what's keeping Hizballah from immediately taking power. "The Sunni," he said. "If Hizballah moves too fast, the Sunni push the country into a full-fledged civil...
Though the Administration has so far ignored Hyder, 24 physicists, including Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, joined in a one-day sympathy fast with him and signed a letter in support of his goals, though not of his tactics. "I hope he decides not to fast to his death," said Glashow, "Maybe then he can live to see his dreams come true...