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...faced the toughest possible second seed in the tournament in the No. 17 Red Raiders (20-5 at the time, 20-6 after a loss Sunday to No. 16 Michigan) and gave them a run for their money.“I think we caught [Texas Tech] off guard,” co-captian Dan Nguyen said. “I don’t know whether they thought that the No. 51 team could challenge them. We certainly didn’t make it easy for them.”The match, which was cut short after...
Lahiri's rise is part of a changing of the guard in American fiction, from a generation in which white American-born men still play a primary role (Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon) to one in which the principal voices weren't born here, like Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Gary Shteyngart (Russia) and Junot Daz (the Dominican Republic). They're transnationals, writers for whom displacement and dual cultural citizenship aren't a temporary political accident but the status...
...doing a little different path than most of the other seniors,” he said, explaining that he will serve eight years of reserve duty in the Army National Guard rather than the four years of active duty his ROTC scholarship would otherwise require...
...Guard secular establishment is now backing a lawsuit aimed at banning the democratically elected AKP, casting a shadow over Turkey's prospects, at least in the short term. The suit seeks to bar the party and its members from political activity for allegedly violating Turkey's constitutional prohibition against mixing politics and religion. The move has rattled markets. After tripling from 2002 through last November, Turkey's stock index has dropped 32%. The global credit crunch has not helped. The ratings agency Standard & Poor's in April cut Turkey's credit rating to negative from stable, citing a fraught political...
...spiritual or the lack of time but it sucks it out of you.” As a graduating senior, Miller won’t be holding up the Tuesday tradition and performing next year, leaving the future of the event uncertain. One can only hope that a new guard of performers such as Campbell, McNulty and Valides Fernandez will keep the tradition alive and continue to breathe new life into Harvard’s lacking music scene. —Ama R. Frances contributed to the reporting of this story