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...weekend’s Howe Cup, the national championship, with a more thorough scouting report on Penn and Princeton.Harvard entered the match unsure of what Penn’s four freshmen would present. At both the No. 2 and No. 8 positions, the Quaker freshmen defeated Blumberg and Charlene Neo respectively.With these players now scouted, the Crimson feels better prepared to face them in postseason play.“I think having played someone within the last week is such an advantage, especially if you’re the person who lost,” Grigg said...
Sofia easily matches the rest of Europe in cobblestone streets and cathedrals. Aleksander Nevski Memorial Church, a massive neo-Byzantine tribute to the Russian soldiers who died fighting for Bulgaria's independence from the Turks in the late 19th century, is well trafficked, as are the souvenir stalls outside selling communist and Nazi paraphernalia. Fewer sightseers meander into the Sveta Nedelya Church, where Sofians gather for incense-imbued Bulgarian Orthodox services in a mural-covered sanctuary. It was there that a church employee approached my camera-toting travel companion, asking to be photographed. We wound up sharing warm bread...
...speed and level of chaos in Iraq is picking up fast. An apocalyptic cult came uncomfortably close to taking Najaf, one of Shi'a Islam's most holy cities, and murdering Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Sistani is the neo-cons' favorite quietist Shi'a cleric, the man who was supposed to keep Iraq's Shi'a in line while we went about nation building. And then, on Sunday, Iran's ambassador to Baghdad told the New York Times that Iran is in Iraq to stay, whether the Bush Administration likes...
...situation is that a mob hit has been ordered on a drug-addled Las Vegas magician/informer. Competing hit teams - bounty hunters, neo-Nazis, a pair of deadly lesbian ladies - turn up to compete for the million dollars on offer for completing the job. The FBI, of course, is attempting to protect the man they hope is going to be their star witness. Pretty soon everyone get to killing everyone else. You have quite possibly never seen so much unedifying mayhem in a relatively confined space, the smallest of which is a hotel elevator in which two guys pump uncounted bullets...
...disguised as meritocracy.” Protesters during the student takeover of University Hall in 1968 used to gesture at the portico of Widener, screaming, “Don’t those Georgian columns look like the plantation?” The columns, built in 1915, are more neo-classical revival. So actually...