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...welfare benefits. This policy is offensive; it denies aid to those who face not only economic difficulties but also cultural and linguistic barriers. Legal immigrants should be treated no differently than those who have held longer residency—they should be aided and welcomed into our society, not hung out to dry for their first few years in America...
...weather turned nasty in the winter, but Harvard just pushed its winning ways indoors. Men’s basketball hung in the most competitive Ivy race in recent memory for much longer than anyone had expected, only a year after losing its top scorer. And none of the Lavietes Pavilion fans will soon forget the two-point loss to Princeton, the overtime upset of Penn or the nationally televised demolition of Brown...
...Hamadi (not his real name) was commander of a tank unit in Iraq's Third Army before he was arrested for links--which he denies--to an opposition party. He was held for 10 months. Saddam's military intelligence, he says, tortured him several times a week. "Sometimes they hung me from a ceiling fan to make me confess to something that was not true," says the colonel. When he was released last spring, he fled to northern Iraq, where the country's Kurdish minority functions almost autonomously from Baghdad under the protection of the U.S.-British no-fly patrols...
...doubles, the Harvard duo of Snyder and Chu, playing in only their third match together, faced Baylor’s Nathan McGregor and Markus Hornung, the No. 34-ranked doubles pair in the country. Snyder and Chu—an aggressive lefty-righty combination—hung early and got the match...
...helicopter crash; in Siberia. An Afghan war veteran, Lebed protected Boris Yeltsin during the hard-liners' coup in 1991, ended bloodshed in Moldova's breakaway Transdniester region in July 1992 and signed the peace accord that ended the first Chechen war, in August 1996. DIED. LUNG SI-HUNG, 72, known for his portrayal of the master-chef dad in the 1994 Taiwanese hit, Eat Drink Man Woman; in Taipei. Lung achieved international acclaim for his roles in Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all helmed by Oscar-nominated director, Ang Lee. (See Eulogy). DIED. RUTH HANDLER...