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...recent alum, Jill Hopman, says she saw members of the team chugging shots of liquor and shouting "Duke lacrosse" at Charlie's, a popular student hangout, on Saturday, March 25, a full day after the allegations crept into the news. The Duke administration had already decided to forfeit that day's game against Georgetown as punishment for the underage drinking at the party. "I was thinking, You're representing more than yourself," Hopman says. "It was just giving Duke a bad name." She wrote an Op-Ed in the student newspaper, the Chronicle, describing the incident. She has been told...
...woman at one point said she was driving by the house, then later that she was walking by it. They also challenged the scope of the DNA sweep, since the team captains told prosecutors that not every player was at the party. Even outraged students and alums like Hopman are urging people not to prematurely judge the players. "We are all Blue Devils in the end," she says. Good teamwork can still bring Duke together. Even when it's tearing it apart...
DIED. Harry Hopman, 79, Australian tennis player and coach whose rigorous training regimen as nonplaying captain of his country's Davis Cup teams from 1950 to 1969 produced 15 victories and a corps of top players, including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and John Newcombe; of a heart attack; in Seminole...
James Blake, Class of 2001, who has taken time off away from Harvard to play professional tennis, defeated Wayne Ferreira, a former top ten player, yesterday at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: The death toll has reached 73 and 1,000 remain hospitalized after the truck bombing Wednesday that decimated Sri Lanka's central business district. Soldiers cordoned off the area as bulldozers cleared out the rubble and rescuers searched for survivors. TIME's Kendall Hopman reports from Colombo: "The rescue efforts were made very difficult by the clouds of smoke and a weak fire hydrant system. There wasn't enough water pressure to reach the higher floors in some of the buildings. The rubble also made reaching the injured difficult. The people on the street are in shock...