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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...great team effort—a lot of guys jumped out,” Farrar said. “Everybody played really well. I’m very pleased.” “It was great to get a win in front of the home crowd, start off divisional play 1-0,” said co-captain Egen Atkinson, citing team defense and a “stellar” performance by senior goalie Nikhil Balaraman as crucial to the win. A successful transition game was another key aspect of Harvard’s victory. Tallying four...
...Design Hive. Located in the school’s auditorium, the self-proclaimed “retail experience,” and “urban street market” showcases the work of independent designers and various artisans. Just beyond the public school’s front doors, crayon-scribbled artwork mingles with arrow signs beckoning shoppers downstairs to the gymnasium, where smiling vendors volunteer information about their wares—those dresses are made from 100% organic materials and these handwoven handbags are actually made from recycled candy wrappers. On stage, a DJ spins a steady stream...
...others: John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and William Styron. Unlike them, however, Beck gets a lot of help from his staff.) His latest book, Arguing with Idiots, will be published this month, and if things go as expected, it will be the third No. 1 with his name on the front published in the past 12 months. Taking a page from Stephen King - who once called Beck "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother" - Beck recently entered into a partnership with Simon & Schuster that pays him a share of profits rather than a traditional author's royalty, and he plans to create...
...expelling. Advar News, a student news agency, claimed that 50 students at University of Tehran - which was the epicenter of not only this summer's protests but also demonstrations that led to the fall of the Shah 30 years ago - were recently forced to defend themselves for hours in front of a disciplinary committee. "I am tired of going to university, which always looks like a prison," says a young woman who was suspended for the coming term from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran. "Every day, they harass us by any means - threatening to reject us or suspend...
...crisis, dozens of professors resigned or went on strike over the crackdown and more were thought to have been whisked to notorious Evin prison. In late August, Khamenei rekindled fears of a purge of "un-Islamic" faculty, declaring that studying the social sciences "promotes doubts and uncertainty." Speaking in front of a group of conservative students and professors, he said, "Many of the humanities and liberal arts are based on philosophies whose foundations are materialism and disbelief in godly and Islamic teachings...