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...basketball team will play the first of 14 straight playoff games.The contest against Dartmouth (2-9) marks the beginning of conference play for the Crimson (8-5), which accounts for everything in the Ivy League, the only Division I conference without a postseason tournament. One misstep against an inferior team could very well punch an irreparable hole in the best hopes Harvard has had in years to beat out Penn for the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA tournament berth.Harvard enters the crucible coming off the last and toughest segment of its non-conference schedule, having been dominated...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Center Rejoins Lineup | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

...their first European Cup championship and was named Footballer of the Year. At 5 ft. 9 in. [1.75 m] and 150 lbs. [70 kg], he looks like a sparrow in shorts next to the burly 'hatchetmen' who triple-team him ... Best's revenge is 'to make them feel so inferior they'll never want to play football again.' He does it with speed, deception and an uncanny skill for controlling the ball ... After home games, Best mans one of his fleet of sports cars and leads a caravan of 'Best Setters' on boozy all-night rounds of the pubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...leader. Jim Tracy Denver, Colorado, U.S. I was a bit unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different and inferior to other living creatures merely because the method of creation was changed. A clone is just another member of its species. Laura White Folsom, California, U.S. Snuppy, the dog cloned by South Korean scientists, was a disturbing choice for Time's Invention of the Year. The cloning of mammals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Amazing Inventions | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different from and inferior to other living creatures merely because the method of creation was changed. A clone is just another member of its species. Laura White Folsom, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...unnerved by your referring to Snuppy as an invention. The cloning technique is remarkable, without a doubt, but I believe it is wrong to classify a cloned creature as an invention. Doing so somehow implies that a clone is different and inferior to other living creatures merely because the method of creation has changed. A clone is just another member of its species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 12, 2005 | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

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