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...score that many against Harvard as the Crimson has struggled on defense against strong guard play. On the strength of Chiera alone—Blackwood missed two of CCSU’s first four games with an injury—the Blue Devils held close with a quality Northeastern squad earlier this season before falling 94-90. Chiera had 23 points in the loss. CCSU was also ranked fifth in the tough Northeast Conference coming into the season and could offer the Crimson its toughest challenge to date. If Harvard can manage to get past the Blue Devils and their...
...reason that officials in northeastern China decided not to announce that a 50-mile slick of toxic benzene was headed downriver toward the city of Harbin earlier this month was their fear of damaging tourism and investment in the region, sources tell TIME. Instead, as the potentially lethal spill approached the metropolis of 10 million people, the city said in an online statement that the entire water supply was being shut down for "water main maintenance and repair...
Jeffrey C. Aguero ’07-’06’s date was going great. He was hitting it off with a guy from Northeastern, a friend of a friend, over hot chocolate at a Starbucks in downtown Boston. After a while, the conversation turned political, and Aguero mentioned that he was a Republican...
...seriously either. First and foremost, Affleck is an outsider—a Boston native with no real ties to Virginia. In addition, the growing unpopularity of celebrity Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Ca) is likely to make voters more circumspect towards a candidate running on celebrity. Affleck also represents the northeastern brand of liberalism of which many Virginians would be wary...
...accident in China's frigid, northeastern industrial belt was well covered in the local and national media, as TV news aired dramatic footage. Officials moved fast and evacuated roughly 40,000 residents living near the plant. At midnight, 10 hours after the blasts, the vice party secretary of the plant, which is owned by New York Stock Exchange-listed PetroChina Co., announced that people shouldn't worry about the orange cloud. "The explosion," he said, "did not cause toxic air pollution...