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...following night a tired squad lost by 14 to the Quakers, in effect ending its chances at the elusive Ivy championship.But the biggest story of the season occurred much earlier. Center Brian Cusworth entered the 2006-07 season with just one semester left of collegiate eligibility. Faced with the option of sitting out the Crimson’s first 18 games or the final 10, Cusworth opted for the latter, allowing him to practice and work with the team through the fall.However, this meant that after just four Ivy League games, the center would be forced to leave the team...
...individual's immediate exoneration. Prosecutors in Union County could re-try Halsey, although "it's inconceivable that there would be another trial in this case," Plotkin says. In most cases, the evidence is so convincing that prosecutors do not choose to hold a retrial, athough they do have that option. According to Neufeld, none of the 201 exonerations have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn't commit, did not prosecute Johnson again...
...investments in Africa. A humanitarian crisis is occurring on the continent, and a group that advises the Harvard Corporation must decide whether divesting from corporations with ties to repressive governments in Africa does more harm than good. The students hope to convince Harvard that divestiture is the only moral option...
...Like any bureaucracy, Chinese authorities have preferred to leave things the way they are as long as they could. But inaction is no longer an option. By Beijing's own accounting, the country is wracked by more than 70,000 "public-order incidents" each year. What defines an incident is kept vague, but activists and scholars agree that they constitute serious breaches of public order, and are often sparked by disputes over issues such as property rights or local government decisions that in other societies would be resolved through the legal system. Yet officials are also aware that any expansion...
...year-old industry is scrambling to reinvent itself. But not even satellite radio or the new HD format addresses this analog medium's fundamental flaw: it doesn't give people any say in which songs they hear. If you don't like a track or a DJ, your only option is to turn the dial--or turn...