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Improve during the preseason and peak in April—that’s what Harvard coach Traci Green has been preaching to the women’s tennis team all year. Over the course of the preseason, the Crimson improved gradually as it took on nine ranked teams in 12 matches. Now it’s April and the Crimson has found its stride. This weekend, Harvard (2-12, 2-0 Ivy) opened its Ivy League schedule and prevailed over Cornell (8-4, 1-2) and Columbia (2-11, 0-3). The victories ended the Crimson?...
...government pulled the plug on RCTV anyway, but rather than fade with the network's signal, the movement only grew. When the President later proposed constitutional reforms that among other things would have allowed him to run for re-election indefinitely, more protests followed. At their peak, Sánchez reports, nearly 200,000 people, from union laborers to business executives, participated in a single Caracas march. People across the nation responded to the students' message, and the reform package was narrowly defeated at the polls. "We were victorious," Sánchez says, "which has allowed us to have democracy...
...wanting to condemn Watson’s acts and their philosophy. Eco-terrorism has always repelled me; using violence against humans seems an odd way to preach compassion towards animals. Moreover, many of Watson’s actions seem patently counter-productive: Icelandic support for whaling was said to peak after Watson scuttled two Icelandic whaling boats in Reykjavik’s harbor...
...Deon Meyer's latest offering, Devil's Peak, former freedom fighter Thobela Mpayipheli is on a vigilante revenge mission after his eight-year-old adopted son is gunned down. Is he the good guy or the bad guy? Kunzman reckons: "The relationship between criminals and the forces of the law is different. American and British crime fiction is largely about a society that is firmly in control, but which is momentarily imbalanced by an act of murder. In South Africa, that's wishful thinking...
...defining moment of Accelerate, and perhaps the defining moment of whatever R.E.M. goes on to become from here, takes place a few seconds into the fourth song, Hollow Man. At the band's peak, Stipe's lyrics conveyed emotions with an abstraction summed up in a line from Losing My Religion: "Oh no I've said too much." He chose his words carefully, out of a sense of privacy and poetic economy, and trusted that the tremors in his voice would convey the feelings. But the success of 1992's Everybody Hurts led to some bad habits; soon after...