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Despite the rain storms that cancelled the Harvard baseball games yesterday, the softball team battled Penn to a draw in its final home Ivy doubleheader. The Crimson took the first game 7-6 before falling 8-0 in the second.Whether the games should have taken place was another matter.“Administratively, it was not handled well,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “We should not have played today. Baseball did not play; we should not play.”“There’s a little bit of a double standard...
Officials postponed Harvard’s doubleheader with Brown early in the morning yesterday, anticipating afternoon rain and damage to the field. The games will be played at O’Donnell Field today, starting at 1 p.m. The Crimson enters the final week of the Ivy League regular season with a one-game lead on second-place Dartmouth, whose doubleheader against Yale was similarly postponed yesterday. The league office has not yet announced a make-up date for the finale of that series. Harvard will await the Big Green in the opening doubleheader of a four-game home...
...police reacted brutally to such demonstrations, firing tear gas and rubber bullets in many places. While the numbers of casualties are hard to know at this stage, it is clear that many were wounded. Cell phones were jammed throughout the city to cut off communications. A long spell of rain in the afternoon helped the authorities by stopping the protests for a while, although large plumes of smoke continued to curl up into the Kathmandu skyline as protestors kept their fires burning. Then the rain ended, and the protestors came out again. This time the police seemed to have lost...
...expect a magnificent setting. Nestled at the edge of almost 2.2 million acres of tropical rain forest protected by a World Heritage listing, Daintree is bursting with a dizzying array of flora and fauna, including nearly half of Australia's bird species and what often sound like most of its frogs. Butterflies float among the palms like large leaves, their wings a flash of metallic blue in the shafts of sunlight...
Cathy and her husband Terry believe ardently in the restorative powers of the rain forest's pure air and water. They have both battled cancer in the past few years, and now they want to expand the lodge's range of therapies?such as naturopathy, yoga and meditation?and services to include healing retreats and corporate escapes. But their boutique-size spa has none of the hauteur you might expect at the Ritz. With room for only 30 guests, Daintree is so private that visitors are more likely to encounter a white-lipped tree frog than a fellow guest when...