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...Oshika whaleland museum in this tiny village in northeastern Japan, you can get your cetacean two ways: stuffed, in the form of a plush children's toy, or canned, for dinner. But you can't get it fresh. Although Ayukawa was once a bustling whaling port, a two-decade-long international ban on commercial whaling has all but killed the industry here. Now just a pair of companies occasionally ply nearby waters, roving for the Baird's beaked whales they're still allowed to harvest. It's the sort of insignificant game the whalers of Ayukawa would have thrown back...
...emotional issues with long histories. "Acrimonious" is the way one professional woman in her early 60s describes her relationship with her "very successful" older brother, which is why she insists on anonymity and won't name her brother or allow him to be contacted. She lives in a Northeastern city with their 90-year-old mother, who has midstage Alzheimer's; he lives far away. When they were kids, brother and sister fought over control. Now in their 60s, they're struggling over, well, control. "To me, he was always a tyrant," she says, "but my mother couldn...
...Crimson began its season with a pair of wins, then headed west for two games in southern California. After dispatching San Jose State, Harvard ran into a tougher opponent in USC and faced its first loss. The Crimson compensated by running over Lafayette, but then fell to Northeastern and went 1-2 over its next three...
Opening the season ranked No. 8, the Black and White squared off against neighborhood foes Northeastern and Boston College. Radcliffe dominated, winning every race and taking the two varsity eight races by over ten seconds...
...Crimson, it was the first season of Northern Division play. In past years, Harvard and Brown participated in the Northeastern Division, but the Northern and Northeastern leagues merged before the 2005 season...