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Even though the NCAA tournament may have been put out of reach thanks to Wente, Harvard still has an opportunity to make its mark as "the third contender" in the conference. The hardest part of its schedule is still to come, as four of the Crimson's last...
...Johanna McGeary, who wrote the cover and spent a month traveling through South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that...
...bottom-line statistics ought to be enough to startle even the hardest of hearts in Washington: Since 1991, sanctions have been responsible for over 500,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. Some international aid agencies estimate that an average of 5,000 Iraqi children die each month. Others say that those estimates are conservative. Infants die from a host of illnesses, almost all of which would have been curable or preventable before the sanctions began...
...Arabian Sea, were pulverized and all the more prostrate for their remoteness: help didn't get through until 24 hours after the quake struck. Ahmedabad, Gujarat's largest city with a population of 3.6 million people, and Bhuj, a walled city of 150,000 near Ground Zero, were hit hardest. In Bhuj, over 90% of the buildings were sledge-hammered by the quake, including the town's main hospital. Officials estimate 6,000 Bhuj residents were entombed. The survivors remained on the street, too scared to return home as 188 aftershocks followed in the succeeding 24 hours...
Then the earth bucked and shuddered. Local officials in India are notorious for not enforcing building codes. As many apartment blocks began to teeter, the desperate leaped from balconies. Bhuj, the hardest-hit city, lost its main hospital, and 4% of its 150,000 residents are dead. Elsewhere in Gujarat, 400 schoolchildren were buried alive as they marched in a Republic Day parade...