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...while Harvard appears to hold certain advantages over Cornell on paper, the Big Red still reigns as the Ivy League’s top dog. The Crimson will have a chance to change that perception on Jan. 30, when the two squads square off in Ithaca. But for now, we’ll see if Harvard can live up to the precedent set by the Ancient Eight’s defending champion by defeating its own talented Big East opponent tomorrow...
...According to the German intelligence services, up to 30,000 Germans are believed to hold far-right beliefs - and among those, one-third are bent on violence. "It's a shocking situation," Ziercke says. He urged law-enforcement agencies to take stronger actions to prevent right-wing crimes and said courts must start handing down tougher sentences to offenders. The police chief also warned the government against scaling back funding for so-called exit programs, which are designed to help people leave extremist groups. "These people are mostly young, around 24 years old, and they come from difficult family backgrounds...
...early November, an independent review of the MBTA's operations and management found significant water damage to the concrete slabs that hold the rails between the Harvard and Alewife Stations. The report warned that trains traveling between these two stations were in danger of derailment...
Democrats will hold 257 House seats to the GOP's 178 after Griffith's switch...
Immediately after 9/11, a combined U.S.-Yemeni effort to decapitate the Islamist group's leadership in the country and dismantle its infrastructure met with considerable success, Johnsen says. But since 2006, al-Qaeda has managed to regroup and grow stronger as Yemen's government struggles to hold on to its territory amid multiple rebellions and rising poverty. Now, Johnsen adds: "You can't just kill a few individuals and the al-Qaeda problem will go away." (See a story about whether Iran is causing trouble in Yemen...