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...million Hutu - one-eighth of this small central African country's population - who are expected to face trial for the 1994 genocide that wiped out an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu and political opponents of the former regime. Spectators squatting on a termite mound lean forward as Ntirushwamaboko describes how he and a gang of others corralled and slaughtered a group of Tutsi near the house of his victim, a 29-year-old farmer named Gonzaga Twagiramungu. Among the dead was his victim's 1-year-old son. "I'm asking for forgiveness from all Rwandans and the government...
...like the choice,” said junior Frank Herrmann, who will take the mound in Harvard’s Sunday game. “He’s a confident player, and you definitely need that in this kind of game. I think the choice by [Harvard] coach [Joe Walsh] was the right...
...this weekend’s Metrodome Tournament, the Crimson will send two juniors and a freshman to the mound recently made famous by American League Cy Young winner Johan Santana...
...point, placing a huge chunk of reddish clay on the wheel, Barnard alternatively pressed and stretched the shapeless mass into an imposing two-foot tall tower. Within minutes, he reshaped the mound into an attractive vase. He lifted it off the wheel and began to prod it with his fingers, smushing in the smooth, round sides and denting the upper lip quite a bit. “Now,” he says, satisfied, “it feels heavy...
...strong a word. The 2001 work, Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself is a vertically-oriented rectangle (roughtly three feet by four feet) of plain unfinished wood with a slightly raised strip frame around the edges and a light, blond...