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...Crimson (5-4) to make the lead 2-0 in the Catamounts’ favor. While Harvard was able to get seven shots in the first period, the first buzzer rang without a Crimson point on the board. The Catamounts did not let their two-score lead prevent them from playing hard offense, and just two minutes into the second half, Luce knocked in another score, this time assisted by fellow junior Megan Maynard. The crowd of 300 in Burlington did not get to see a Catamount shutout, though. Harvard’s Polet capitalized on a penalty corner with...
...crackdown on the protest came just two days after the Supreme Court, lead by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, ruled that the government had no right to blockade streets leading into the capital, nor could it prevent protests or stop the free flow of traffic past government buildings. Nevertheless, both Constitution Avenue, which leads past the Supreme Court building, and intersecting street Sharah-e-Jamhuriyat, which roughly translates as Democracy Avenue, were completely blockaded. "This is a massive violation of not just human rights, but of the Supreme Court ruling," said Anila Ateeq, a high court lawyer, as she dabbed...
...Then the violence began, with at least two monks reported killed. As an eyewitness at Rangoon's best-known landmark, the golden Shwedagon Pagoda, tells it, the authorities had locked the famous monument's gates to prevent the monks from gathering. Security forces guarded the entrances. A little after noon, hundreds of monks, students and other Rangoon residents approached the police, sat on the road and began to pray. The troops responded quickly, pulling monks from the crowd and striking both clerics and ordinary citizens with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded, and the riot police charged. Some protestors fought back...
...appreciated Nancy Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit...
...Crimson will try to keep Threatt from making any big plays, and it will also attempt to prevent the Lehigh running backs from moving the ball. The Harvard defensive line struggled in the opener against Holy Cross, but responded last week by only giving up 49 yards on the ground...