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...home in the league since 1968. And yet it happened again the next time up, with Harvard’s victory coming on the heels of Dartmouth’s 69-59 win the night before. A sign of the Quaker’s former dominance over those two northern schools is that in the 51 previous weekends those teams took a trip down to Philadelphia, Penn had never lost both games. That has changed now and Quakers look set for a second-straight mediocre Ivy season after winning the championship the previous three years.“I can?...
...Born in Manhattan; his family moved to the northern borough when he was an elementary school student. His father was a minister and Carrion followed in his footsteps, working briefly as an associate pastor. He also worked as a public school teacher before going to graduate school...
...During the course of the 45-minute news conference, Obama and Harper jointly announced a clean-energy dialogue between Canada and the U.S., in part intended to develop alternative energy sources and reduce carbon emissions from Canada's tar sands. Northern Alberta's tar sands are the single biggest supplier of foreign oil to the U.S., ahead of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, but the extraction process is energy-intensive...
This is not the first time that the LTTE, which is fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils, has targeted the Sri Lankan Air Force headquarters. On Jan. 1, the same day that the Army announced the capture of Kilinochchi, the Tigers' de facto capital in northern Sri Lanka, a suicide bomber killed three military personnel in the building, which sits among a cluster of government offices in Colombo's Fort neighborhood, one of the busiest in the city. This is also not the first time that the LTTE has struck Colombo by air. The Tigers started using aerial...
Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they're the latest flash point in the nation's incessant drug...