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...ECAC title is not on the line. Neither team is trying to maintain an undefeated record. And the game will probably not set attendance records. But after several years of high-profile match ups against perennial rival Dartmouth, including one game in 2003 that was labeled “The Best Show in Town” by the Boston Globe, when the no. 9 Harvard women’s ice hockey team takes the ice tonight against the Big Green at the Bright Hockey Center, they will be fighting for more than just momentum. “It?...
...begins her training in the arts of being a geisha—grace, dancing, smalltalk, pouring tea—while trying to survive the cruel jealousy of the head geisha, Hatsumomo (Li) and the harsh atmosphere of the geisha house. Under the tutelage of Hatsumomo’s rival Mameha (Yeoh), Chiyo grows up to become the stunning and celebrated geisha known as Sayuri (Zhang). As World War II hits Japan, Sayuri must adapt to the changing way of life about her. Marshall accurately represents Golden’s research of Japanese history and culture. The film is an impressively...
...Erian's geniality could make him a future presidential rival of Mubarak's son, Gamal, 42, who has not ruled out a presidential bid in 2011. It also won't hurt the Brotherhood's image with the U.S. As an activist in the 1980s, el-Erian became friendly with Francis Ricciardone, then a young embassy official and currently ambassador to Egypt. So far, the old acquaintances have failed to reunite. Ricciardone suggests the U.S. ban on meetings could be waived for the Brotherhood's M.P.s, telling TIME, "We have always had contact with elected independent members of parliament." Now that...
...team struggling mightily on the road, some Boston home cooking may be just what the Harvard women’s basketball needs. The Crimson will look to end its four-game losing streak with a victory in tonight’s home game against river rival Boston University (5-2)—the team’s first time playing at Lavietes Pavilion in almost three weeks. “We’ve spent a long time on the road,” junior forward Christiana Lackner said. “It will be very nice...
...Honesty was not his only virtue. He wrote meticulously and had incisive analytic powers. Few could rival his grasp of Chinese society, or his abiding affection for China's common folk. The day after Liu died at the age of 80, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, announced that the government had nothing to say about him or his requests to return to China. "We have already reached our conclusions about him." Those conclusions, ironically, only strengthen Liu's legacy. They show that "two kinds of truth" are still with...