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...zone defense that stymied Harvard’s offense. Columbia eventually overtook the Crimson and won, 60-59, on a lay-in with four seconds left. On Friday, Harvard led by 15 points with less than seven minutes remaining. Again, the Lions switched defenses, this time using a trapping press that forced the Crimson into committing several turnovers. A 9-2 run cut Harvard’s lead to six points and swung the momentum into Columbia’s favor. “They were not going to quit, they were going to do some good things...
...same way that our enemies often parade around their captured and killed. The Obama administration should take the changes they have made to this ban even further. Renouncing all restrictions on the respectful photography of military caskets will tear down a bastion of the repression of free press. It will allow the American public to understand the war in a real and reverential manner, and it will grant our soldiers the honor and dignity that their ultimate sacrifice deserves...
...Columbia defense engaged in an aggressive full-court press in the second half, attempting to cause some arrhythmia in Harvard’s offense. But after being caught off guard in its 74-71 loss to the Lions in Cambridge earlier this season, the Crimson anticipated Columbia’s aggressive defensive strategy this time around...
...sources of supply for those commodities also helps it prepare for the next boom. As economies across the world shrink, Chinese officials have told reporters in Beijing in recent weeks that they see a rare chance to expand its sources for primary commodities. "There are editorials in the Chinese press saying that this is a one-in-one hundred-year's opportunity," says Erika Downs, China energy fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "There is a sense that this is a moment to be seized, that with competition lower they can get a good deal." (See 10 things...
...that books have just been published with titles like Darwin’s Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, assessing Darwin’s abolitionist tendencies, or Angels and Ages, by Adam Gopnik, which compares Darwin to Lincoln. Worse, these views are often evangelized in the popular press. Even something as seemingly innocuous as putting a fish on your car with the word “Darwin” written inside it may suggest to the uniformed that Darwin is somehow the Jesus of atheism...