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...smooth, and firefighters have been able to stage both ground and air assaults on the fires despite heavy winds. Still, the steady, frustrating and unpredictable advance of the fire shows that even the best-laid plans are no match for the fierce force of nature. In this case, the foe was not just fire, but its ally, wind, specifically the type known in Southern California as a Santa Ana, which blows hot and hard from the desert, often in October, when the dry, arid region is at its most vulnerable for wildfires. The effect is analogous to a match striking...
Throughout the match, the Crimson fought neck-and-neck with the nationallly-ranked foe. Down 1-0 until five minutes before halftime, Harvard was able to draw even with the Eagles, as freshman starting forward Maggie McVeigh, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week, sent a pass in from just outside the circle to junior Kayla Romanelli. The forward forced the ball past the Eagles defenders into the right corner of BC goalie Julia Berkowitz?...
...impress. When the mob attacks Joseph at his home, Bobby goes behind his father’s back and spontaneously volunteers for an undercover assignment, eventually becoming a cop himself. Bobby’s rise to arms implies that the ordinary citizen must take up arms against a common foe, but Gray never takes the trouble to grapple with what this means for innocent bystanders, like Bobby’s girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes). The film’s troubling ending rams Gray’s vigilante viewpoint home. When Bobby, now a believer in the efficacy of police brutality...
...rational thoughts. Humans crave money so intensely, he writes, that the brain scans of a cocaine addict and someone about to receive cash look an awful lot alike. The good news: with self-awareness and a basic understanding of the brain's mechanics, we can dupe the greatest financial foe of all--ourselves. --By Carolyn Sayre...
People in the western world remember the streets of Budapest for the brave stand its people took against the Soviet Union in 1956. On Sept. 29 and 30 the streets of Hungary's capital city were home to an uprising against a very different kind of foe: breast cancer, the subject of this week's cover story...