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It’s that element of Harvard hockey—facing adversity head-on—that both Banfield and Corriero fully embody. Along with tri-captain Kat Sweet and seniors Ali Crum and Sarah Holbrook, they were initiated into Harvard hockey via trial by ordeal, seeing more action than usual their freshmen season when the Olympians took the year off to train...
...Federal Shari'a Court in Islamabad, the country's highest Islamic judicial authority, ruled that it had sole jurisdiction in a high-profile rape case. The ruling overturned a lower court's acquittal of five of the defendants a week earlier. The victim said a tribal council ordered her ordeal as a punishment. Poison Probe THE PHILIPPINES Authorities launched an investigation into the deaths of at least 27 elementary schoolchildren in the southern island of Bohol who were apparently poisoned by cassava sweets bought from street vendors. Health officials said the inquiry would focus on the possibility that the children...
...least some Thayer residents, who had to evacuate the dorm briefly on Friday, found a positive way to spin the ordeal...
Canessa described the horror of an avalanche covering the plane as the worst moment of his ordeal...
Over 250 faculty members crowded University Hall for the meeting, many of them forced to sit on the floor and stand under doorways as the debate quickly developed into a one-sided assault on Summers, who sat subdued throughout the ordeal...