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BOSTON—As the Harvard women’s basketball team struggled to maintain its razor-thin second-half lead, there could be no doubt in the minds of the Crimson defenders to whom Northeastern would turn for a game-changing open look...
...residents of the West Bank and Gaza living under siege, surrounded by checkpoints and suffering periodic air strikes and military sweeps, the Palestinian experience offers a ready template for understanding the turn taken by their own lives over the past six months. Whole villages have been surrounded by razor wire, their residents forced to pass through checkpoints; U.S. aircraft and artillery have blasted buildings suspected of being used by insurgents; there have even been instances of family members of suspected insurgents being taken into custody when their wanted relatives can't be found. As one Iraqi waiting on line...
...other business contacts, and some - a small substratum - believe that a proper response to violence against animals is violence against humans. Much of their fury has been directed at the occupants of a sprawling, quiet compound that sits behind black iron gates and a fence topped with coiled razor wire near the Cambridgeshire village of Alconbury. Inside the fence, a sign reads: working for a better future. This is Huntingdon Life Sciences, which tests new compounds for the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and biotechnology industries. Defended by many as one of the world's leading scientific companies, HLS is denounced by others...
Nope—it’s absolutely wonderful. The fact that his subject matter hasn’t changed over nine albums makes it only more impressive that his self-obsession can remain so engaging. Lyrically, Jay has never been stronger, his rhyme schemes weaving and his wit razor sharp. Production, meanwhile, is also excellent. Even the weaker beats simply let Hova annihilate them as he exhibits his mastery of cadence, tone, flow, and inflection—things we’ve been taking for granted because he’s had them down for so long...
...handle yourself if someone attacks you." Two months ago, a rocket-propelled grenade flew over his head and slammed into a street near the bank he was guarding. A few weeks later, while he was inside the bank making tea, an attacker tossed a grenade over the coiled razor wire surrounding the building, shattering its windows. Abbas knows he's a prime target but says, "Since I want to live, then I must work, whether it's dangerous or not." Sergeant Kenneth Smith, one of the U.S. soldiers posted at the bank, sums up the Iraqi guards' grim situation...