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...Disabled volleyball might sound like a charitable exhibition sport, but don't be fooled, says Neil Wilford, a British adviser to the Cambodian league. When an Australian Navy ship docked two years ago at the southern port of Sihanoukville, its volleyball team agreed to a friendly game against a local disabled squad. Before it started, one of the Australians took Wilford aside and asked how easy they should go on their opponents. "Just play as normal," Wilford smirked. The Cambodians trounced the Australians, spiking ball after ball past the red-faced servicemen. The game has since become an annual fixture...
...every crevice of the campus to join in on the festivities happening in the Square. With the Harvard Band leading the way, Sox fans cheered their second World Series title in four years, proudly chanting the names of their icons and providing perhaps the loudest rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” ever heard on the cobblestone sidewalks of the Square. After ushering in the first Red Sox title in 86 years as freshmen, this year’s graduating class has the distinction of starting and ending their Harvard tenure with...
...committee’s petition also quotes a paper by Harvard sociology professor Neil Gross as saying that “a greater percentage of social scientists today feels their academic freedom has been threatened than was the case during the McCarthy...
...don’t know why they would cut them down,” Neil Cohen, an optician whose office is across from the island, said in an interview. “They’re not in the way of anything...
...family heartaches-or at least headaches. There was Donald Nixon and the loans he wangled from billionaire Howard Hughes. There was Billy Carter and his advocacy on behalf of the pariah state Libya. There was Roger Clinton and his year in jail on a cocaine conviction. And there is Neil Bush, younger sib of both a President and a Governor, implicated in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s and recently gossiped about after the release of a 2002 letter in which he lamented to his estranged wife, "I've lost patience for being compared to my brothers...