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...Dave Martin (6th, 25:05.8) provided the only bright spots for the Crimson, turning in the best finishes by individual Harvard men and women since 1995. But, altogether the teams ran less well than their top finishers did. The Harvard women finished fifth out of nine teams, its highest finish in recent years, and the men ninth of nine...
...house in Johannesburg, South Africa, she started screaming. But he had a knife, and very soon her hands were tied behind her back with rounds of thick masking tape. Then he raped her. But her ordeal was not over after he left. In a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, bureaucratic and hospital red tape kept her from getting preventive drugs for 5 1/2 hours. If she had not complained loudly and bitterly, she might never have got the medication. The experience left her stunned and confused: "My left hand is caked...
...country in the throes of an epidemic. South Africa recorded 1,263 rapes in 1979. Today the official annual figure is nearly 50,000, but rape-crisis researchers say only 1 in 35 is reported. That means there are more than 1.6 million rapes a year--the highest incidence in the world, according to Interpol. (In 1998 the official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S. the rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward rape are practically medieval. In Johannesburg, where the HIV-infection rate is reckoned...
Instead of an epic encounter between fabled foes, we have a contest between the two best teams in baseball. And not merely the two best teams but two paradigms of the modern baseball-world order. The Yankees, with the game's highest payroll, are rich because they're in New York. The Braves, fifth highest, are rich because they're owned by a giant, jillion-dollar media company (the same one, Time Warner Inc., that owns this magazine...
...getting mentioned for high profile upcoming movies--a Muhammad Ali biopic, taking the place of Carey Grant in a remake of Charade, etc. Why the delusion? Will Smith is slightly charming, and a box office draw, but he still can't act... Did you know Modern Maturity has the highest circulation of any magazine in the country? And here I thought it was Teen People...Have a great Halloween weekend. A friend and I already have our costumes set. We're gonna be the Puerto Rican Dynamic Duo: Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez. If you love pop culture, you gotta...