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After facing the Orange, the Harvard women’s lacrosse players were left with a sour taste in their mouths. The Crimson (2-4) succumbed, 23-12, to No. 11 Syracuse (6-3) Sunday afternoon at Jordan Field, marking its third straight loss to the Orange in as many matchups. Setting the tone early, Syracuse snagged the lead in the first half, pushing past Harvard, 4-1. The Crimson quickly regained its momentum, with sophomore Kaitlin Martin and junior Natalie Curtis each finding the net to cut the Orange’s lead to one goal. During the 14th...
...public, but doctors say it's likely that, in addition to surgery and radiation, she's already received three of the most commonly used drugs - Adriamycin, Cytoxan and either Taxol or Taxotere. This potent regimen knocks out tumor cells and causes the familiar side effects of nausea and hair loss. If her original tumor was estrogen-sensitive - meaning growing in response to the hormone - then she is almost certainly taking an estrogen-blocking drug such as Tamoxifen. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Diary of Healing...
...Iraq has become the Democrats' problem. Now that the Republicans have ceded control of Congress, they can do what they do best: claim to have the answers to everything without actually doing anything. After six years in power, Republicans have given us a massive deficit, a broken military, a loss of civil liberties and two disastrous wars. Of course they're smiling-they're con men with nothing to sell. David M. Caballero, Tucson, Arizona...
Nicole Richie's planned turn as camp counselor on The Simple Life (helping kids with, among other things, weight loss) got celebrity blog THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP musing that Heather Mills could soon be "showing poor women how to marry for money." That's unfair: it's more like Godzilla teaching urban planning. SCORE...
Because Musharraf also heads Pakistan's army, it's unlikely that he will be forced from office. But a loss of support from his moderate base could deepen his dependence on fundamentalist parties, which are staunch supporters of the Taliban. If the protests against Musharraf continue, he will be even less inclined to crack down on the militants holding sway in Talibanistan--grim news for the U.S. and its allies and good news for their foes throughout the region. Says a senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan: "The bottom line is that the Taliban can do what they want...