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...missed Housman three-pointer led to another Huskies possession, where Adako managed to put in another basket. The Crimson found its rhythm again in freshman Peter Boehm, whose three-pointer brought the game back to one point. It was not enough to grab another lead, though, and Harvard never came back on top. The Crimson’s best chance to come back came on a missed drive to the basket by Boehm, in which a questionable call by the referee led to neither a foul nor a block. Northeastern was allowed an inbounds play and possession that...

Author: By Paul T. Hedrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Falls in Double Overtime | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Like it or not, the holiday season has officially arrived. While you may not be prepared for yet another Christmas blitz, the two weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks are really just filler anyway. So you might as well grab a peppermint mocha twist, start untangling those lights, and make use of your restless pre-vacation energy. Clearly, any scrooge is just jealous that he still has to finish his thesis chapters. The trick is to prioritize: I personally made the (in retrospect, probably poor) decision to skip my MCB 52 exam review in favor of decking the Quincy dhall...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love it: Christmas Comes Early | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...military conflict. What President Bush’s White House never recognized is that the roots of militant Islam could always be traced back to the very sort of careless and baseless military intervention that it ended up endorsing. The war in Iraq may not be the imperialistic oil-grab some on the left have evoked, but the indignation and dissembling with which its leaders have responded to the mercenary problem certainly does little to combat that perception—at home or in the nurseries of anti-American agitators...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Hired Guns | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...violence quickly subsided. Since then, a war of words has broken out. Arab politicians in Baghdad were enraged when the provincial government of Kurdistan struck deals with oil companies without consulting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government; this was seen as proof that the Kurds were trying to grab Kirkuk's resources for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the U.S. Leaves, Will Iraq Strut or Stumble? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Like a latter-day Fagin, east Londoner Ali Lwanga was always careful to keep a distance from his crimes. For a series of cashbox heists across the capital, Lwanga hired and coached children, some as young as 14, to rush the security guards, grab the box and make their getaway, while he watched from a little way off. His haul was $200,000 in just a few months, and Lwanga thought his only problem was laundering the cash. In fact, the police were already on to him; they just couldn't prove it. Until, that is, he was picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SmartWater: Message in a Bottle | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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