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Sixteen top teams from all over the Northeast will converge on Cambridge from Friday through Monday, Oct. 5-8, to compete in the team tournament...
Harvard Coach Sue Caples, who was a captain and an All-American when she played for UMass in 1981, had nothing but praise for the Minutewomen, a perennial Northeast powerhouse...
...Pakistani in his mid-20s, Abu Zaid (his nom de guerre), gave up a chance to study medicine in the U.S. to the dismay of his parents. Instead, he enrolled in an Islamic militant training camp in the mountains northeast of Islamabad. There he learned how to handle a gun and explosives instead of a stethoscope. "We are not fanatics," he insists in a soft, earnest voice, "but we believe it's better to sacrifice ourselves than live in an unjust world." But where is the justice in indiscriminately killing thousands of office workers, firefighters and airline passengers - Christians, Jews...
Most of the top Northeast teams, including all eight Ivy League squads, will contend at the ECACs, but with home-field advantage, Harvard should not have much trouble picking up the title. But it will have to watch out for much-improved opponents, like Ivy co-champs Columbia and Yale...
Sunset over Ha Long Bay off the northeast coast of Vietnam creates a scene that defines the Orient. The silhouetted islands, great limestone columns soaring out over the sea from the slenderest of bases, assume such perfection of proportion and form as to mock all man-made sculpture as artless imitation. Centuries ago, the harmony of this seascape inspired a whole school of Vietnamese painting. To drift today in a red-sailed junk beneath the yawning overhangs and watch the fading light transform rock peaks and fringing jungle into giant figurines is, for a few short moments, to become part...