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...Beanpot championship in February—the Crimson battled into overtime, tying the score three times in regular play, before finally yielding, 6-5, in the extra session...Boston College leads the series with Harvard 66-44-5...The Crimson has yet to win a game on the road this season...
...muscled on Friday afternoon in its first non-conference game at the Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, losing 5-1 to No. 5 Boston College (8-4-1. 5-3-1 Hockey East). The defending NCAA Champions played an aggressive game before a cheering sellout crowd, taking yet another road-win from the Crimson (4-4-2, 4-3-2 ECAC), which remains undefeated at home but has yet to win away from the Bright Hockey Center. The teams seemed evenly matched up until the third period, and Harvard was fighting against a 2-1 deficit when BC crushed...
...Eastern time in the U.S.), it was still going on. Earlier in the evening, the police, who had been pushing the crowd away, started beating them back with bamboo sticks. Crowd control is rudimentary at best. The police and army have stationed vehicles to block foot traffic from the roads; cars are blocked much further down the main road. There are rough ropes strung up by the lackeys of the local political bosses to keep the masses away from the buildings, but if you know the right person, you can still get past them...
...weeks without water in the Sahara, so the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones was an ominous sight. We entered a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders, white turbans around their heads. We'd gone before they could react, but we were 100 miles from the Sudanese border inside Chad and their presence on a road in broad daylight showed how invulnerable they felt. Two hours...
...women and indicted him for war crimes in September 2005. This month, it accused his forces - now numbering an estimated 7,000-8,000 - of taking part in the massacre of at least 50 people on Nov. 5 in the village of Kinwanja, a 20-minute walk down the road. This may explain the attempt to project a gentler face. "I think Kiwanja was a big tactical error," says Tatiana Carayannis, Congo expert at the Social Science Research Council in New York. In other words, this is not a change of direction. Rather, it's a switch of tactics...