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...strong, we don’t finish strong,” Fitz added. “When it comes to crunch time, we just tighten up.” It’s not a good time for the Crimson to be letting leads fall out of its grasp. At the halfway point of the season, Harvard stands in the middle of the Hay Division pack. With no team stepping up to challenge division-leading East Stroudsburg, the league standings are wide open, and the Crimson could make a run at a top finish. Harvard plays three games this coming...
...study, conducted by HMS researchers Stephen De Wall and Brian DeDecker and published in the Feb. 27 issue of the journal Nature Chemical Biology, reported that “special forms of gold, platinum, and other classes of medicinal metals work by stripping bacteria and virus particles from the grasp of a key immune system protein,” according to a press release. Gold-based drugs have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. De Wall and DeDecker’s research began in 2001, with the goal of finding new drugs to suppress autoimmune response...
...Competitive and artless, Ponting is doing his best to ensure Australia keeps winning. That's the job as he sees it, and he's doing it well. Reflecting on his early days, however, might remind him that there's more to sport than that. If he then began to grasp the possibilities of his office, he might become something more than a success. He could be, for decades to come, an inspiration...
...officers then attempted to stop him by physically grabbing him,” he said. “The student was extremely sweaty and slipped from the officer’s grasp. The male then ran down the hall and attempted to get into a door...
...Sunni mosques in Baghdad alone. It is worth noting, however, that the response has not been entirely violent: The New York Times described yesterday’s Shiite demonstrations as “mostly peaceful.” Nevertheless, the decidedly chaotic atmosphere has rendered Iraq’s grasp on political stability ever more tenuous. A full-blown civil war looks to be imminent, with President George W. Bush and numerous Iraqi leaders asking for restraint...