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...squats alone on the floor of her one-room hut, untwisting and retying a torn fishing net, it becomes clear that Rosa Nobert, 43, shares her days with the dead. The walls are hung with faded photographs: her husband, shot and burned in his fishing boat by the Sri Lankan navy; her two nephews, Tamil Tiger guerrillas killed in battle; and 17 relatives, including 13-year-old daughter May Linda, washed away by the tsunami. As Sri Lanka once more flirts with civil war, Rosa expects she will soon be adding one more picture to her gallery of ghosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Island on the Edge | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...made five shots in a row early and got confident, and that momentum really carried her.” As Brown displayed a bevy of effective low-post moves and manhandled the Harvard defense, the Crimson put together a strong offensive first half, shooting 48 percent from the floor and even stealing a one-point lead on freshman Niki Finelli’s layup with 8:28 minutes remaining. That 22-21 advantage, however, was the last that Harvard would take all night. The Tigers reeled off a 10-2 run, sustained by seven points from Brown, after Finelli?...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown, Princeton Roar Past Crimson | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...game wrapped up.After all, this was a veteran Harvard squad that knew how to handle the pressure of a close game. It had two timeouts in the bank just in case it got into any trouble. And to cap it all off, it had four players on the floor that were shooting better than 73 percent from the line, including captain Matt Stehle and junior guard Jim Goffredo, who entered the game hitting 84 and 89 percent of their shots from the stripe.The strategy was simple. Let Princeton do its thing on offense, inbound the ball safely, and then beat...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Harvard Comes Up One Minute Short | 2/11/2006 | See Source »

...into law, the bill would render a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision “moot,” said Colin B. Durrant, who serves as press secretary for State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90. Barrios sponsored the bill, which first reached the Senate floor on Jan. 18. Ruling on a lawsuit filed by The Crimson against HUPD regarding the release of incident reports, the state’s highest court held earlier in January that private forces like HUPD do not have to release the same amount of information as public forces. This bill...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senate To Vote On Public Records Bill | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

...Four years later at Salt Lake City, published rumors had Team U.S.A.'s players stomping on the maple-leaf flag on their locker-room floor in a psych-up ceremony. "There was no validity" to the story, Granato says. "I was highly offended because as captain, I just wouldn't allow that to happen." But the damage had been done. The Canadians were frothing. And during the gold-medal final, U.S. referee Stacey Livingston dealt a lopsided number of penalties to Canada, which added to their fury. "The refereeing was atrocious," recalls Canadian captain Cassie Campbell. "But we expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Women Fight Dirty | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

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