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...three freshmen proved to be the only scorers in double digits for the Crimson, accounting for over 70% of Harvard’s points. Casey led the pack with a career-high 27 on a perfect 6-of-6 shooting, while Webster netted 15 and Giger 10. The group also showed its versatility, driving to the hoop to draw fouls and demonstrating range. The trio went 19-of-24 from the free-throw line and hit all five of its three-pointers, but Lin noted that the group’s intangibles were equally valuable...
...class are entitled to the special protection that requires heightened scrutiny of laws that discriminate on the basis of race or religion, for example. That may sound like a fine legal distinction, but it is one that matters. For instance, laws that deny a fundamental right to a group based on race are subject to the highest level of scrutiny, and almost always fail a constitutional test. But the same law, if applied to a group without such constitutional protection, can usually survive, like laws that prevent felons from voting. (Watch a gay-marriage wedding video...
...Shabab militia in Somalia, which is suspected to have ties to al-Qaeda, would not say whether it was involved in the plot to kill the cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard. But Sheik Muktar Robow, a spokesman for the group, did say that Gelle, who was shot by Danish police during his arrest, was a "hero to all Muslims." "We are very sad that the mission failed," Robow tells TIME. "Everyone describes him as a brave man, and as a group, al-Shabab prays for him to recover quickly from his injuries." (Read a brief history of al-Shabab...
...quite clear that al-Shabab has international ambitions," says E.J. Hogendoorn, a Nairobi-based Horn of Africa analyst for the International Crisis Group. "It has an international agenda in that it sees itself in part as relating to the larger Muslim population. So when they can get away with a high-profile attack that they think will generate support, I think they will do so. The question is whether they have the capacity to do so." (See pictures of Muslims in America...
...original group of thirty-ish slowly diffused until just a few of us remained after two hours of casual conversation. Some remained to get dinner and talk business; FlyBy remained because we forgot how to get to the subway...