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Last night at Bright Center, the Harvard women's hockey team knotted Princeton at 4-4 after two periods, but the Tigers escaped the Crimson's grip in the final stanza and blitzed their way to six scores en-route to a 10-5 triumph...
...Harvard on topic debate team is once again preeminent in the nation. Following the victory of the squad's top team, composed of senior Jonathan Wiener and Junior Jonathan Massey, at the biggest tournament of the fall season, only the Miami Hurricanes football squad has a firmer grip on a number-one ranking...
...narrator begins in medias res: At 30 she is already in the grip of the "Thing," a mental and physical illness which creates irrational anxiety and fear in the mind, continuous bleeding and a racing pulse in the body. Cardinal plays the analyst here, setting in order the critical phases of her narrator's treatment, creating a series of dramatic episodes which take the reader through the patient's alternating confusion and revelation until the chaos of madness is resolved...
...ancient continent is now on the brink of disaster, hurtling towards the abyss of confrontation, caught in the grip of violence. Gone are the smiles, the joys of life...
...Saharan Africa is burdened with half the world's 10 million refugees, partly as a result of the drought that has held the Sahel region in its arid grip for more than a decade. As nomadic herdsmen wander thousands of miles in search of food and water, some 14 million acres of potentially productive grasslands are destroyed each year by their livestock. At least 20% of the continent is desert; experts believe that the process of "desertification" could encompass 45% of Africa in 50 years if current patterns of land use are allowed to continue. Famine and pestilence plague...