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...match was close from the opening minutes, with the Crimson able to come away with a 47-45 victory in the first set, during which neither team was able to establish momentum. Each time one team had a kill or caught a lucky break from an attack or service error, the other would respond with the same on the next play. Kuld’s finishing abilities were constantly being called upon, as the senior finished the set with 10 kills...
While Harvard improved its play after a timeout, it couldn’t win consecutive points or steal back momentum. Finally, Witkofsky, who pestered the Crimson all night at the net, finished off the match with his 31st kill, sending the Crimson back to Cambridge on a disappointing note...
Victor is afraid. Twice last year he told panels investigating the violence that shook Kenya after a rigged vote in 2007 how leaders of his own Kalenjin tribe had whipped up ethnic tension, and paid boys to kill people and torch homes. His testimony helped prove that the violence was a well-organized political power play rather than some paroxysm of tribal rage. But now, like many others who testified alongside him, Victor (not his real name) gets text messages threatening him with death. He can't find work, other Kalenjin shun him, and strange men attacked his eight-year...
...going to take some abuse in 2010." Like most bank lobbyists, he says he supports financial reform - as long as it doesn't include a consumer agency or a bunch of other provisions that Obama supports - but that hasn't stopped his industry from spending millions of dollars to kill it. What's interesting is that now, for the first time, the lobbyist thinks reform is going to stall. "I'm not sure I see the path anymore," he says. (See 10 things that have and haven't changed during Obama's first year...
...spirit of compromise, Democratic leaders may have to restrain their idealism and succumb to the political reality that Senator-elect Brown represents. Brown has vowed to kill the current version of the bill, leaving the Democrats with no choice but to change it or lament its demise...