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Before you begin reading this, please have before you on screen, paper, or wall, a reliable full-scale map of the Middle East, one stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea to the Gulf of Aden. You will note that the territory covering 5.25 million miles belongs to states of the Arab League—18 independent Arab states and three part-Arab Muslim states, Mauritania, Somalia, and Djibouti. There is one holdout in that hegemony: Along the Mediterranean, south of Lebanon, east of Egypt, and west of Jordan, is the 8,000 square mile Jewish state...

Author: By Ruth R. Wisse | Title: How Much Land is Enough? | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...take on Rensselaer (6-7-2, 1-4-1) at the Houston Field House. Junior Sarah Vaillancourt led the team with two goals and an assist to help extend Harvard’s winning streak to eight games with a 5-2 triumph over the Engineers.After a 16-mile bus ride west, six different Harvard skaters scored in a 6-0 victory over bottom-dwelling Union (1-13-0, 0-6-0) in Schenectady. HARVARD 6, UNION 0 Just nine games into the season and nine Harvard players have multiple goals to their names.Offensive output from a multitude of sources...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Continues Perfect Season | 12/2/2007 | See Source »

...performance overall,” Merritt said. “I was pleased with where my progress is from last year’s first meet to this year’s first meet.” Junior Aishlinn O’Callaghan placed 10th in the mile after crossing the line at 5:20.79. The women’s 4x400 meter relay team finished sixth in 4:04.52. It was a slightly quieter day for the men, with only three top-10 finishers but 10 competitors in the top 15 of their respective events. Senior co-captain Alex Obrecht...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Kicks Off Season at Northeastern Husky Winter Carnival | 12/2/2007 | See Source »

...summer, said Knievel was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis that hardened the lungs. "When you spoke with him, it was an effort for him to finish a sentence without taking another breath. But he faithfully came to Evel Knievel Days, even though the severe altitude change, from sea level to mile-high, was especially hard on him. But he was tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Evel Knievel, 1938-2007 | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...suffering from a lung ailment, pulmonary fibrosis. "When you spoke with him, it was an effort for him to finish a sentence without taking another breath," he said. "But he faithfully came to Evel Knievel Days in Butte, even though the severe altitude change, from sea level to mile-high, was especially hard on him. But he was tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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