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After last weekend’s heroics against Cornell, beating Brown was not supposed to be a very difficult task for the Harvard women’s basketball team. But Friday night in Providence, a poor first half placed the Crimson in a dogfight. The team did not panic. The players gathered themselves in the locker room before dominating the Bears (2-25, 1-12 Ivy) in the second half on their way to a 68-47 win that guaranteed Harvard (18-9, 11-2) at least a share of the Ivy League title. “Once...
...increase.While farmers in Iowa are enjoying their first Caribbean vacations this winter due to the unprecedented success of the corn crop this season, Mexico is struggling with tortilla riots. Food aid organizations are grappling with rising costs and decreasing supplies. Economists are worried about the political unrest as the poor are disproportionately affected by soaring food prices. Clearly this issue is much bigger than the pasta problems at Harvard. As anthropology professor James Watson has said, “The fact that even Harvard can’t control it should give us a sense of its gravity...
...media timeout, Brown's Mark MacDonald takes the inbounds pass and scores in the paint as the shot clock expires. Another poor finish for the Crimson. [Brown 72, Harvard...
...burgeoning insurgency, then beginning to spread across other areas of Iraq, was slower to take hold in Mosul for a number of factors. Mosul drew a measure of stability from its history as place of relative wealth and sophistication, whereas early insurgent havens like Fallujah and Ramadi were poor, troubled places even under Saddam Hussein. And some leaders among Mosul's Sunni community for a time held out hope of finding a role in the emerging post-invasion power structures even when Sunnis elsewhere were quickly adopting a rejectionist mentality. General David Petraeus, who was then head of U.S. forces...
During the meetings, participants use old revolutionary phrases - "the pedagogy of the oppressed", "liberation struggles" and "cosmovision." Their politics are unabashedly leftist, their preference is for the poor, and their footwear is varied. In fact, at a time when even Ortega is courting transnational investors for free-trade zones and negotiating agreements with the IMF, the group at Casa Bin Linder seems more traditionally Sandinista than today's Sandinistas are themselves...