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...seconds: Lin holds for the last shot, but he is called for traveling, something that happened a lot last night...
...sure they do not overlook tonight’s game against Colgate. Even though Cornell may be the game the fans are preparing for, the Crimson has prepared sufficiently to tackle Colgate, the first obstacle this weekend. “Our immediate focus is on Friday’s night game to make a step in the right direction,” Rogers said. The Raiders have not experienced an ideal season, but the Crimson is not taking them for granted. “Any team can come out and beat a team on a given night...
Kenneth W. Starr—the lead prosecutor of President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal—arrived at Harvard Law School yesterday night to deliver a talk on the Roberts court and its decisions on business cases, but during the course of the conversation, Starr’s controversial decision to work towards upholding Proposition 8 generated mixed views among students. Starr, a former United States solicitor general, was named as lead counsel for the official proponents of Proposition 8 last December. The California proposition, which eliminated same-sex couples’ right to marry, has remained...
...September 2007, shortly after TIME ran a story about the apparently successful return of speedy turboprop planes for short commuter flights, the manufacturer of the Q400, the same type of plane that crashed in suburban Buffalo last night, requested that all such aircraft with at least 10,000 cycles (a single cycle is a take-off and a landing) be grounded for inspection. Bombardier said it was a precautionary move after two accidents (one in Denmark, the other in Lithuania, both involving aircraft owned by SAS) involving its bestselling Q400 in a space of three days. In January...
...Brahmanic Laws of Manu, a code of Hindu principles first articulated in the fifth century B.C., forbade the use of arrows tipped with fire or poison. Written in India a century later, Kautilya's Arthashastra, one of the world's earliest treatises on war and realpolitik, advocates surprise night raids and offers recipes for plague-generating toxins, but it also urges princes to exercise restraint and win the hearts and minds of their foes. The Roman military historian Florus denounced a commander for sabotaging an enemy's water supply, saying the act "violated the laws of heaven and the practice...