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...November homestand against Princeton and Quinnipiac, the ECAC leader at the time.In the weekend’s first contest, Harvard, at that point the league’s last-placed team, shocked the Bobcats with some of its best play of the season. Having fallen behind early, the Crimson rode the highlight-reel offense of junior Mike Taylor and a crunch-time defensive stop by junior Tyler Magura to an electric come-from-behind win.Just 24 hours later, however, Harvard submitted one of its sloppiest and most lackluster performances, squandering an early two-goal lead to succumb...
...undergraduate reporter, Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82 rode in a limousine with writer Tom Wolfe and cursed with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. But what he remembers most is the water. Lots of water...
...gunner in a scout unit, Aaron Genevie often rode through Baghdad popped up out of the top of his humvee, manning a belt-fed automatic machine gun. Gunners are the eyes and ears of the driver, constantly scanning the horizon for threats. In Baghdad's congested streets, they are also traffic cops--waving cars out of the way, shouting at drivers who get too close. That's what Genevie was doing the day he died, telling his driver to maneuver around an Iraqi national-police checkpoint when a roadside bomb went off and killed him instantly...
...find a husband for his 18-year-old sister Suwarana, and then pay her dowry and arrange a suitable wedding-responsibilities that would push him further into debt. What his family knows is this: on a sunny morning in central India in late November last year, Pravin, 27, rode his motorbike to a nearby town, bought a few meters of red and yellow nylon cord, returned to his gently sloping cotton farm and hanged himself from a concrete power pole. Neighbors found him within minutes, blood trickling from his mouth...
...that has been learned before, notably by the British in India exactly 150 years ago. On the evening of Sunday, May 10, 1857, some 300 Indian troops (called sepoys) in the town of Meerut mutinied against their officers. They shot as many as they could, then rode through the night to the old Mughal capital of Delhi. There they massacred every Christian man, woman and child and declared the 82-year-old Mughal Emperor Zafar their leader. The rhetoric of the uprising explicitly revolved around the threat that the British posed to Indian religions. As the sepoys told Zafar...