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Tomorrow at 6 p.m., the Crimson will host Yale (6-15, 1-7). Sophomore guard Maria Smear--one of the nation's most accurate three-point shooters at 44.2 percent--leads the team with 11.8 points per game. In Harvard's 54-40 win at Yale on Jan. 12, the Crimson held Smear to single digits. Harvard is the only team to hold Yale under 50 all season...
...DIED. MARIA JOSE CHARLOTTE HENRIETTA GABRIELLA, 94, Italy's last Queen before the nation became a republic in 1946; in Geneva. As a member of the Savoy dynasty, she ruled alongside her husband, King Umberto II, for a total of 27 days following the abdication of his father, Vittorio Emanuele. After a public referendum vetoed the monarchy--and rejected the facist regime of Benito Mussolini--the couple fled into exile. Gabriella never returned, but her demise may prove to be the catalyst needed to lift a lifetime ban on the male Savoy heirs...
...security means a tiny cell in Gaborone Central Prison, where the gaunt, 50-year-old blonde says she is at peace and where she awaits death by hanging for the 1996 murder of Maria "Ria" Wolmarans, one of her closest friends. In the year after the killing, Bosch married Wolmarans' widower-Marthinus, known as Tienie-with whom she had been having a passionate affair since shortly after her own husband's death in a 1995 auto accident. Barring a presidential decree of clemency, Bosch-who still maintains she is innocent-would be the first white woman to be executed...
...Reported by Rukmini Maria Callimachi/Ahmadabad and Meenakshi Ganguly/Mumbai
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee declared a state of emergency and ordered thousands of troops to help during the aftermath. "We will rebuild the broken homes," he said. "We will resettle the shattered neighborhoods. And we will pray for those that died." --By John Cloud. Reported by Rukmini Maria Callimachi/Ahmadabad and Meenakshi Ganguly/Bombay