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...grabbed the rebound and fed sophomore guard Dan McGeary, who had already hit four three-pointers in the game.But as McGeary dribbled up court and found himself about 30 feet from the basket, the buzzer went off before he could get a shot off, as the Crimson suffered its fifth straight loss.“Regardless of the score, we had to play 40 minutes to beat them,” Northeastern coach Bill Coen said. “They execute and scrap right to the buzzer.”Harvard nearly scrapped and clawed its way back...
BOSTON—The Harvard men’s basketball team’s fifth straight loss, a 76-73 defeat at Northeastern, came despite a very efficient night for the Crimson on the offensive...
...Decades later, the stirred memory of that photo suggested the plot of Qiu's Red Mandarin Dress, the fifth and latest of his popular, Shanghai-set Inspector Chen detective novels. This time, Qiu's hero, a cop and poet, is on the trail of a serial killer who dresses his female victims in tailored qipao dresses - a macabre gesture freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many...
...owners. Viktor Semyonov, deputy industry director at the Ministry of Industry and Energy in Moscow, says the number of cars sold in Russia topped 2 million in 2006 - a 20% increase - and was up 28% in the first half of 2007. If growth rates continue, Russia could rank fifth in the world in sales by 2010, overtaking England, France and Italy, Bonchev says...
...when kids interact wholly with each other without supervision (possibly excluding lunch), recess is an essential part of growing up. Only through lost games, hurt feelings and skinned knees can children build the social skills and develop the emotional maturity that they will need as adults. As one fifth-grader lamented, kids today are kept inside “if there is a rain cloud…if there is a snowflake...if there are puddles.” Coddled to this extreme, they will hardly be able to deal with sleet; how will they react...