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...game against Cornell (12-15, 8-6), punishing the Big Red, 64-48, at Lavietes Pavilion. The win clinched the Crimson’s sole possession of the Ivy League title and the automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.Harvard’s defense held Cornell to a meager 32 percent field-goal shooting on the night. It also out-rebounded the Big Red, 40-28, and forced 16 turnovers. “Our offense is always created from our defense,” Lackner said. “Picking up our defense was what got us back...
...Petersburg, several hundred people gathered for a quieter but no less emotionally packed protest action in Moscow. They were mostly senior citizens, who argue that they have worked all their lives for the state and now are dying because they can't survive on the state's meager pensions...
...have shown that if you place a normal kitten, for example, in a completely dark chamber immediately after birth, the kitten will become irrevocably blind. As a result, doctors in developing nations are often reluctant to perform surgeries like cataract removals on children. The risks--infection, mostly--outweigh the meager rewards...
...consecutive months, the longest period of growth in the postwar era. So why are ordinary Japanese consumers like Maki Nobata behaving as if the country were still deep in recession? "I'm trying to cut back on spending," says the 36-year-old Tokyo accountant, who received a meager raise of less than $75 a month nearly two years ago and hasn't had another one since. Adding to her worries, Nobata doubts the pension system will be in place by the time she retires. "I feel like I need money for saving and insurance rather than for spending...
...tell you, there were actual romantic dates last year,” giving hope to the love-sick hopefuls looking for their own cure this coming Valentine’s Day. The show began rather dryly with two somewhat awkward jocks shyly shaking their derrières for a meager $15. However, the humorous and flamboyant antics of the night’s emcee, Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08, offered some needed comic relief. He even referenced a certain SNL skit to familiarize the audience with the finer points of charity. “Don?...