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...Harvard men’s basketball team with the return of captain Brad Unger. The forward had missed the first five games to start the season with a stress fracture in his foot. But before the Saturday night game against the Friars, he took part in pre-game drills and was in uniform for the contest, as opposed to the coat and tie look he donned for the team’s previous games. “Brad has practiced the last couple of days, so we’re trying to see where he is,” Crimson...
...pivot point is this: now that Huckabee seems likely to slow down Romney in Iowa, does Team Giuliani now shift its own pre-Florida efforts from Iowa to New Hampshire? Why bet any money or time on Iowa now that someone else is doing your work for you - and you could wind up in fourth place even if you play your cards well? My guess is that this calculation is already being embraced by some at Giuliani headquarters. Last week, with their man's polls sagging, Giuliani's team finally spent some of its cash on ads in New Hampshire...
...declaration to be "a P.M. for all Australians - a P.M. for indigenous Australians" draw the loudest cheers. Later, as they spill into the mild Brisbane night, people glance at the bronze statue of Wally Lewis - Queensland's greatest rugby league player - whose finest moments occurred at a pre-renovated version of this stadium. Rudd is no footballer. But on this night, to those who've rejoiced in the end of the Howard era, he is a home-grown hero above all others...
...dispute. Arafat's successor Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and key Israeli political figures, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have in one way or another signaled their willingness to accept Jerusalem as two capitals for two states. There is an increasing consensus about Israel's need to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, albeit with land swaps that accommodate the reality of large Jewish population centers in the West Bank planted during decades of settlement projects...
...such straightforward reassurance may not be enough to counteract the tutoring industry's bells and whistles, such as Sylvan's trained instructors and Score! Educational Centers' fancy computer-based curriculum. Kumon encourages the pre-K crowd to come in twice a week for about 30 minutes--at a cost of about $125 a month--to memorize letter charts and study flash cards. "I didn't feel like my son was where he could be," says Gina Monteiro, 38, a quality-assurance worker in Indianapolis who in June started taking her 4-year-old to lengthy sessions at a place called...