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...last non-conference game of the season Monday night, Harvard needed a buzzer-beating lay-up by Harvey to lift the Crimson past the Hawks, imitating his heroics from Harvard's bout at home against Dartmouth earlier in the season. The victory completed a remarkable unblemished record (5-0) against the America East conference...

Author: By Andy C. Poon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Heads to Empire State | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

Harvard trailed by as many as five points, at 29-24 with 5:21 remaining in the first half, and led by as many as 16 when a Clemente lay-up pulled the Crimson to 65-49 with 8:56 left in the second half...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Edges Hartford with Thrilling Last-Second Shot | 1/31/2001 | See Source »

Faced with a society warped by division between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority, Kagame and his followers long ago concluded that the only hope for the future lay in making a clean break with the past and erasing ethnicity from the political discourse. He has argued that both ethnic groups should focus on their shared language, culture and homeland...

Author: By Darryl Li, | Title: Rwanda's Brave New World | 1/31/2001 | See Source »

...likely to be painful. The new President backs hundreds of millions of dollars in extra funding for an energy-assistance program to ease the burden on the poorest Americans. For everyone else, high prices could be around for a while. The clearest indication of that came from Kenneth Lay, the chairman of Enron, the Houston-based energy giant that is the nation's largest power marketer, with a major stake in California. Last week Lay warned that California would have to resolve a "pretty much self-inflicted problem"--even if that means price increases for consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View From Washington: Bush's Energy (Oil) Policy | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...stage festooned with blinking lights ran the length of the room. One transvestite gyrated upon it in a translucent top and high heels. Another lay nearby, legs akimbo, doing something unspeakable with a cigarette. I couldn't quite see what: there were so many heads craning into my line of vision. A song was playing, scratchily amplified: "Ladyboy, ladyboy/ I wanna be a ladyboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burmese Daze | 1/28/2001 | See Source »

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