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...pose threats to West’s run at the title. Last year, West lost in the quarterfinals to Kimlee Wong.“It is very difficult [during the season] to say who is better,” said West. “[If it is] number seven on Harvard versus the number three on Dartmouth, you can never be sure [who will win]. This [tournament] is a great way to get different matches that no one has ever played before.”The top 32 players compete in the A bracket with the remaining competing...
...GNAC) last night at the Malkin Athletic Center and fell to the Raiders 3-0 (30-16, 30-19, 39-37). Although Rivier may hail from the often overlooked Division III Great Northeast Athletic Conference, the team from nearby Nashua, N.H. demonstrated why it deserves to have the number one label next to its name in the NECVA poll. “[Rivier’s] a really good team, with big middle hitters that can really hit the ball,” Harvard coach Brian Baise said. “They played really well on the outside and blocked...
...Senate majority leader Harry Reid on Wednesday defended the 2009 earmarks, arguing that while Democrats have worked to shrink the number of earmarks in recent years, such pet projects do play a vital role in the budget. Who better knows the needs of each district and state, he argued, than the members representing those populations? "Since we've been a country, we have had an obligation as a Congress to help direct spending," Reid told reporters on Capitol Hill. "We cannot let spending be done by a bunch of nameless, faceless bureaucrats buried in this town someplace...
...hijacking of red and yellow by political groups has forced some Thais to give up wearing both colors, lest they be erroneously placed in one of the two political camps. The number of people who would normally wear yellow on Mondays to honor the King has dropped considerably, not because they respect the monarch any less, but because they don't want to be associated with the PAD. Likewise, soccer-mad Thais who would usually wear red Arsenal or Manchester United jerseys have been forced to think twice about supporting their favorite sports team...
...contributing factor, with jobless locals taking out their frustrations on migrants. But Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy director of the Sova Center, which monitors racially motivated crimes, argues that the rise in unemployment has nothing to do with the death of 14 Central Asian migrant workers in Russia in January. "The number of deaths is lower than the same time last year," she points out. Instead, she says, the financial crisis "is just an excuse for neo-Nazi groups to kill immigrants." She points out that another wave of killings of Central Asian workers began well before the financial crisis...