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While Cloud saw these goals as a sign that her team had found its fire, Harvard coach Sue Caples had a different take after seeing her young squad lose the composure that had defined it in the first half...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Drops Third Straight At Home To Quakers | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...second intifadeh. Indeed, it was a bad weekend for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all around. On Sept. 25, the Israeli Defense Forces killed three members of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in an air strike - the first one inside densely populated Gaza City since a loose cease-fire was implemented following Israel's devastating three-week offensive in January. Some warn that the cease-fire is looking increasingly shaky. (See pictures of Gaza digging out from the 2009 Israeli invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Cease-Fire with Hamas: Close to Snapping? | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...this was something the University had made a priority, bringing the arts to Harvard.” It is really through this kind of symbolism that the Task Force itself, according to Pecci, has made the most impact.“I feel like that sort of ignited this fire now,” he says. “An excitement.”“Today, more than ever,” the Report declared, “artistic practice will need to contribute to intellectual inquiry and help construct new forms of social practice...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Have An 'Art | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Detroiters with financial resources wished to follow, they could not: the de facto segregation was virtually de jure in most Detroit suburbs. One suburban mayor boasted, "They can't get in here. Every time we hear of a Negro moving in ... we respond quicker than you do to a fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...part, Detroit must address the fact that a 138-sq.-mi. city that once accommodated 1.85 million people is way too large for the 912,000 who remain. The fire, police and sanitation departments couldn't efficiently service the yawning stretches of barely inhabited areas even if the city could afford to maintain those operations at their former size. Detroit has to shrink its footprint, even if it means condemning decent houses in the gap-toothed areas and moving their occupants to compact neighborhoods where they might find a modicum of security and service. Build greenbelts, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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