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...Rivals have had good reason to be intimidated. While historians consider the present run to be the fifth golden era of Australian cricket, there's been nothing to match it for duration or the number of exceptional players it's spawned. Over this period greatness (or something close to it) has come in pairs; it has arisen in those apparently untouched and been replicated as if by decree. The country had not one Waugh but two?Steve the hardhead, who carved out cricketing immortality from the granite of his temperament, and Mark the aesthete, whose fluid strokes caused ancients...
...four event. The Crimson’s heavyweight freshman eight entry finished third in 12:35.4—just four seconds off Northeastern’s winning time and 0.9 seconds following second-place Brown. Harvard’s lightweight freshman eight crossed in 13:00.9, good for fifth place. —AIDAN E. TAIT
...Sept. 12, 2006, the day after the world had marked the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Benedict threw himself into the maelstrom. The unlikely venue was his old teaching grounds, the University of Regensburg. His vehicle was a talk about reason as part of Christianity's very essence. His nominal target was his usual suspect, the secular West, which he said had committed the tragic error of discarding Christianity as reason-free. But this time he had an additional villain in his sights: Islam, which he said actually did undervalue rationality and which he strongly suggested was consequently more...
...scholar. As he strives to assume that role, holding out an olive branch to other religions while fiercely defending his own, the Pope may want to consider the story of a much earlier walker of the Catholic-Islamic tightrope. In the 13th century, during the middle of the Fifth Crusade, St. Francis of Assisi briefly departed Italy and journeyed to the Holy Land to evangelize to the Muslims. According to Christian traditions, he preached the gospel to the Sultan, only to be told that Muslims were as convinced of the truth of Islam as Francis was of Christianity. At that...
...perfect baby shower gift for Crimson coach Stephanie Morawski in a commanding 193-102 win over Columbia on Friday night at Blodgett pool. Morawski returned to the pool deck for the first time since giving birth to a baby in early November to coach her team to its fifth win of the season and remarkable 25th straight dual-meet win. “They did a great job,” Morawski said. “They are very spirited and it came out in their racing.” Though the Crimson defeated Columbia by a sound...