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...Huskies in the single-elimination NCAA Tournament tonight. The match will take place at 7 p.m.at Boston College’s Newton Field.On Monday evening, the 26 Crimson women’s soccer players crowded around the television on the second floor of Dillon Fieldhouse, waiting to hear the fate of their season. Across town, 29 Huskies were also anxiously tuned into ESPN to see what team they would draw for the first round of regional play. Neither team was surprised to learn its opponent. “We were all kind of thinking that it was going...
...Professional Golfers Association of Thailand.) Loss of pride aside, Thaksin can at least take heart in the august company of others who have been barred from entering Britain. Earlier this year, American domestic diva Martha Stewart was denied a visa because of her brief jail stint, the same fate that befell Cordozar Calvin Broadus, better known as rapper Snoop Dogg. Chen Shui-bian
...plenty of stocks rallied, with the Dow Industrials ending up nearly 250 points. On Monday, news of China's $586 billion stimulus package, a colossus of a program tha t should bolster the global economy, was washed away amid more company-specific concerns like the fate of G.M. It almost feels as though investors are once again paying attention to the underlying value of individual stocks, and aren't simply being swayed by broader economic news: bailouts, oil prices, hedge-fund liquidation, data pointing to recession, a particular presidential election. (Find out 10 things...
...pages of 2666 are divided into five parts, and it will give you some idea of the book's tone, rigorously literary and ridiculously informal at the same time, to know that those parts are titled "The Part about Fate," "The Part about the Crimes" and so on, as if they were Friends episodes. (The flawless translation, by Natasha Wimmer, is appropriately loose and relaxed.) Part 1 is called "The Part about the Critics...
Seventy years ago on Nov. 9, the Jews of Germany - and perhaps most of Europe - had their fate revealed to them on one frightening night. Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," saw the ruling Nazi party unleash bands of thugs on Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria, ostensibly to avenge an attack on a German diplomat in Paris by a young German Jew whose family had been forced to flee Hitler's regime. By dawn on Nov. 10, 92 Jews lay dead, among the 400 beaten, shot or driven to suicide by the abuse. Some 267 synagogues had been torched...