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...mood was tense. The players were focused. The balls were flying. In the first rounds of the “Harvard Table Single Player Tournament,” held last Sunday night in the Malkin Athletic Center, table tennis players engaged in a heated battle of the ball. Competition brewed, with players ranging from Harvard College freshmen to a Winthrop House security guard. “It’s fun and easy to learn,” says Katrina L. Welch ’11, one of many players to talk about the relaxing aspects of the pong...
...Mother and son spent months preparing to follow him to Indonesia-getting shots, passports and plane tickets. Until then, neither had left the country. After a long journey, they landed in an unrecognizable place. "Walking off the plane, the tarmac rippling with heat, the sun bright as a furnace," Obama later wrote, "I clutched her hand, determined to protect her." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's hair...
...That may be overstating it, somewhat: It's unlikely that most Mexicans really feel that mid-19th century life was exactly "ideal." But the heat generated online by the ad does reveal that the war and resultant redrawing of the map 160 years ago can still spark a furor on both sides of the border. Thousands of critics accused the ad of being anti-American and took pains to defend the inclusion of the southwestern states into the union. "It is absurd to believe that the U.S. stole Texas and California since most inhabitants of the Southwest considered the 19th...
...middle of the race, and that allowed us to hold off a strong Washington.” The win in the finals yesterday was made all the more impressive by the fact that the Huskies defeated the Crimson by over three seconds in Saturday’s preliminary heat. Learning from Saturday’s finish of the strength of Washington’s sprint in the last 500 meters, Harvard pushed itself to create a strong advantage from the start, beginning the race with a cleaner start and upping the stroke rating up to 36 from the 34 they...
...string of recent convictions and imprisoning of activists apparently designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government controls and blocking of sites outside China has intensified significantly in recent months. As Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International put it in a report released on April 1, despite promises by both the International Olympic Committee and Chinese officials...