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...Harvard women’s water polo team snapped a four game losing streak with a 17-6 win over Connecticut College Saturday afternoon in New London. For the Crimson (11-11, 3-5 CWPA Northern Division), it was the final game before returning home for the crucial Northern Division Championships to be held next weekend. With at least a second-place finish at that tournament, Harvard will clinch a spot at the Eastern Championships a week later in Providence. “It is always good to go into a big important tournament coming off a positive experience...
...citizens.” Kelly joined Nick Hardwick, the chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which handles complaints against police in England and Wales, and Kathleen M. O’Toole, the commissioner of the Boston Police Department and a member of the Patten Commission. During the Northern Ireland peace process, the Patten Commission was responsible for recommending a set of policing reforms that were eventually implemented. Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Kennedy School of Government Christopher Stone, who moderated, kicked off the event by describing policing in democracies...
...MURDERED. DENIS DONALDSON, 56, former official with Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein party and British intelligence informant; found dead at his remote rural cottage; in County Donegal, Ireland. In 2002 Northern Ireland's power-sharing government collapsed after Donaldson and two other men were arrested and accused of running an I.R.A. spy ring in British government offices in Belfast. The case against them collapsed late last year, but Donaldson subsequently admitted to being a paid British agent for two decades and was expelled from Sinn Fein. The I.R.A. has denied any involvement in the slaying...
...more closely than any other Australian into why parents choose homeschooling. Religion (or "world view") plays a role as often as not, says the former teacher, though its influence isn't straightforward. He tells of two fathers who each withdrew their daughter from the same Year 4 class in northern Tasmania: one felt too much time was being wasted on Easter and Christmas frippery; the other objected to the humanistic curriculum, "so that teacher was damned either way." Some parents act on the view that the drudgery of school dulls children's desire to learn. Others recognize that while...
During the weekend, the Harvard women’s water polo team faced the daunting task of facing perennial division champion Hartwick, division rival Brown, which had already beaten the Crimson twice this year, and ranked non-league foe Michigan.While Harvard (10-11, 2-5 CWPA Northern Division) put up a gallant effort against each of its opponents, it could not scratch out a win.The Crimson fell to the No. 13-ranked Hawks (20-9, 7-0) 16-7 at home on Friday and lost 10-6 to the Bears (11-13, 4-3) on Saturday afternoon in Providence, before...