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...sabre Caroline Vloka, who went 12-0 on the day, Harvard edged out the Tigers first, who had beaten the Crimson at an earlier meeting in the season. With easy wins over Cornell and Yale, the women’s team was unstoppable, culminating with a victory over undefeated rival Columbia. “Columbia was certainly our biggest win today,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “It was the match of the undefeated in the Ivy League. [The win] puts us over the top right now.” Other standout performances...

Author: By Melissa Schellberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Garners Mixed Results in Postseason Play | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...contemptuous of the anxiety his release is certain to trigger in the West. It is only public approval in Pakistan that he desires, Khan said, no doubt aware that he is still admired by broad sections of conservative and hard-line religious opinion for allowing Pakistan to match rival India's membership in the nuclear club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom for Pakistan's Nuclear Proliferator | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...enough marks as a presidential candidate in 2007 to finish second in the race, with 17 million votes. These days, her grades - and her ability to get on with her political colleagues - have slipped. In a new book set for publication Feb. 5, Royal not only belittles her victorious rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy, as a greedy, vain, amoral "little boy happy to be surrounded by his toys," she also takes swipes with similar venom at fellow Socialist Party heavyweights. Oddly enough, Royal appears to hope that the book's belligerent and paranoid-sounding attacks on friends and foes alike will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ségolène Royal's Book-Length Whine | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...served as Secretary of State in the late 1990s. Aubry narrowly beat Royal for the party leadership last November. "Despite the primary, the presidential election and a more than honorable score, I'm still her junior minister, and [Aubry] will never see me otherwise," Royal contends, adding that her rival also served as a proxy for male Socialist elephants to deny Royal the party leadership. "They found a woman to battle another woman on the logic we'd beat each other bloody, and they could step in and take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ségolène Royal's Book-Length Whine | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Maliki appears to have consolidated his power by trumping the Shi'ite rivals on whose support his government had long depended. Initial tallies show that candidates loyal to the Prime Minister won comfortably in 10 of the 14 participating provinces, including Baghdad. They failed to win, however, in the largely Shi'ite province of Karbala, in the mixed provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, and in largely Sunni Anbar, where unresolved allegations of election fraud among rival Sunni contenders have left the province fearing an outbreak of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Vote: Al-Maliki Wins Big, But Secularists Encouraged | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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