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...employs the transitive property, the Harvard men’s basketball team will face the 2003-04 NCAA champions this weekend in South Bend, Ind. Though No. 21 Notre Dame didn’t cut the nets down in March, the Fighting Irish did knock off eventual champion UConn last February despite being decimated by several injuries...
...sure-fire NCAA tournament season turned grim for Notre Dame last year, but the return of starting center Torin Francis—the McDonald’s National High School Player of the Year in 2002—has the Irish primed for a return to the Big Dance, a journey it will begin tonight against the Crimson in its season opener...
That opportunity carries a different significance for both squads this year, each coming off disappointing seasons and looking to reestablish themselves. After falling 66-58 to UConn in the Big East championship game, the Irish received a NIT bid last year and ended a three-year streak of NCAA appearances...
Late Sunday night—or, rather, early Monday morning—Gadfly was interrupted from her Irish lit reading by a high screeching sound. At first Gadfly thought she was being followed by the legendary banshee, as it sent a chill through her very marrow. Rushing downstairs to investigate, she realized it was merely the initiation rituals of the Sabliere society, an all-female social group started by several Crimson editors, among others, during the great “female social club” wave of the early millennium. Unfortunately, said society must bear the albatross of the greatest...
Born in Dublin, Hassan is married to an Iraqi, holds British, Irish and Iraqi citizenship and has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years. She has been a critic of sanctions over the years and a stalwart leader, before and during the war, of efforts to improve the country's faltering water, health and education systems. A few months before the war began, Hassan told TIME the sanctions against Iraq had helped create "a dependent society with little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well...