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...that good this year, they have always been a problem, so we always look out for them.”Yale is the best free throw shooting team in the Ivy League, posting 72.7 percent from the charity stripe. The Bulldogs have also built a wall around three point land, holding its opponents to 28 percent from beyond the arch. In its last meeting with Yale, the Crimson didn’t score a single three pointer. The game should break down as a typical offense vs. defense matchup, as Harvard possesses the best perimeter shooting in the Ivy League...
...founding monarchy, which lasted until 1889, insulated the country from the region's 19th century upheavals but also spawned a quasi-feudal class system that led to the inequalities that persist today. In 2000, fewer than 3% of Brazilians still owned more than two-thirds of the arable land, and the divide between the rich southeast and destitute northeast, where Lula was born, was as stark as ever...
...University has denied repeated requests by local residents and city officials to place a moratorium on future land purchases, saying that certain parcels contiguous to current holdings may still be considered for acquisition...
...towards intentional self-parody, with lines like “I need a cookie and a hug.” The lyrics work best when they undermine, rather than reinforce, the fuzzy cuteness of, well, everything else about the band.It is easy enough to create a wistful childhood fantasy land, but it is more interesting to examine its borders, where the defense mechanism of regression into childhood breaks down either from its own deliberate obliviousness or from an encounter with the so-called real world. “I Box Up All The Butterflies” shows this fairy tale...
...Easier said than done, however, because the only basis for bringing Syria into the U.S.-led camp is a peace agreement with Israel, and the Israeli public and leaders appear to be in no mood to give up the Golan Heights. The "land for peace" paradigm of the Oslo accords has long fallen into disrepute in Israel, where skeptics point out that Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and from Gaza in 2005 only to face rocket fire from Hamas and Hizballah. After the failure of major Israeli military operations - the 2006 war in Lebanon and this year's Gaza...