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...victory. “We knew this was going to be an easier match than Princeton or the one against Trinity, so we wanted to use it as preparation for Princeton,” Oren said. “Most of the guys played pretty well, after we got rid of a little bit of our tiredness from the bus ride.” Harvard’s other loss in the match came at No. 9, where Quaker freshman Christopher Thompson beat senior Todd Ostrow by a 9-0, 9-0, 9-3 count. The team?...
...only uncommon and wrongheaded but amounts to malpractice. The code of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists forbids not only sex with patients but "any behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose the wheat with the chaff. Indeed, the metaphorical couch is gaining favor over pills as the main tool of treatment for many conditions, with training institutions recently increasing their emphasis on psychotherapy...
...they were willing to buy back the copy of “Moby Dick” that the Harvard Book Store rejected for $1.50. Get there fast—a book might sell for less from one day to another, depending on how many students try to get rid of their copy on that particular day. Maybe it’s time to pursue other markets—the widest profit margin FM found for “Principles of Economics” was the average selling price of $89 at Half.com, where the book has gone for as much...
...struggled to relieve the besieged Jews of Jerusalem in 1948. Three-quarters of the Jewish population and all of Israel's major cities, its airports and the bulk of its industry lay within range of Arab artillery. Wars followed one another in savage procession. In 1956 Israel tried to rid itself of the Arab threat from Gaza by joining Britain and France in attacking Egypt. The U.N. forced Israel to pull back. But Israel learned a lesson: never again a withdrawal without something in return. In the early days of June 1967 came the moment of Israel's brightest triumph...
...Ireland reconciliation. The more hardline Protestants in Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party feel a bit like the prodigal son's brother in the Bible - they think Sinn Fein is being praised for something it should have done all along. They're also wary because an apparent promise to get rid of the IRA's guns ended up taking years to fulfill...