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...stunned the crowd by rallying to force overtime. Several clutch baskets by Northeastern denied the Crimson a thrilling win, but its spirited effort and resiliency is definitely something Harvard can build on. “I think our team grew up a lot tonight,” said junior guard Jeremy Lin after the game, in which he led the team with 18 points. “We’re starting to realize what we can do as a team. But obviously there’s still a lot of work to do. There’s definitely...
Tremendous, dedicated, and masterful are all adjectives that can be attributed to Crimson junior guard Jeremy Lin. Anyone who has followed Harvard’s men’s basketball this season—from Crimson reporters to Boston Globe senior writer Bob Ryan—can tell you this.He’s the best player on the court for the Crimson. His start to the season is off the charts.But the question remains whether it’s the best ever. In its storied history, Harvard has had its fair share of great basketball players. But after Lin?...
...Unlike their contemporary counterparts, revolutionary artists painted without cynicism and with plenty of socialist ardor. That doesn't mean that their work was immune from interference or mishandling. When Shen Jiawei's Standing Guard for Our Great Motherland - a heroic masterpiece of three guards in a watchtower high above a snowy landscape - was first exhibited in Beijing in 1974, the faces of the soldiers had been made fuller, fiercer and pinker on Jiang Qing's orders. In the present exhibition, the painting has been restored to the image intended by the artist, now a highly acclaimed portraitist in Australia...
Back in Lyudinovo, snow is falling heavily. Andrei Petrov, the biggest retailer in town, owns many of the stores, including the new emporium, and also runs a wholesale distribution business to supply them. Getting in to see him is hard. A security guard wants to know whether we are American spies. Petrov's deputy, Viktor Denisov, nervously locks his office door when he crosses the corridor to see his boss. Petrov is deliberately cagey about business prospects. Yes, an economic crisis is now raging, "but this is not the first time we've had one," he says. Indeed, back...
...Washington Blackwater Guards Charged In the latest blow to Blackwater Worldwide, the largest security contractor in Iraq, five employees were indicted on voluntary-manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians at a busy Baghdad intersection. The Justice Department unsealed a statement given by a sixth guard recounting the 2007 incident in which dozens of people were shot. In the account, Jeremy Ridgeway describes how he and five other men opened fire on cars and even a girls' school, claiming it was done without provocation...