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...Crimson season skidded to a halt on Friday night, as the women's soccer team lost a heart breaker, 3-2 after penalty kicks, to Boston rival Northeastern in the first round of the NCAA Regionals. Lightning could not strike twice for Harvard on the night. After miraculously defeating Columbia 2-1 with nine seconds remaining in the second overtime last Saturday to win the Ivy title, the Crimson could not repeat its dramatic success. Harvard lost 4-2 in penalty kicks against the Huskies. But it looked like junior keeper Lauren Mann had put the Crimson ahead earlier. Tied...
...Nothing feels more impossible than human suffering," says a character in The Daughters of Joy. "We get trapped in it because we've lined up our unsolved problems like horses on a merry-go-round. Every day the same horses go around inside our heads. Old grievances, unforgotten pain, resentment, anger, failure and insecurity - the circle keeps turning." Through his books, videos and workshops, Chopra offers a ticket off that merry-go-round. He is hardly to blame if, to date, there has been no shortage of takers...
...political career. For example, it took more than a year of watching Obama play poker in "the Committee Meeting" - the nickname that Illinois state senators gave their regular, after-hours poker games - for legislator Denny Jacobs to notice Obama's occasional offhand references to Hawaii's nearly year-round 85-degree weather. "When we were down there in January and it was a blistering 2 degrees below zero, he would sit there and say, 'You know, if we were in Hawaii, we wouldn't have this problem,' " Jacobs says. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...evening, the 26 Crimson women’s soccer players crowded around the television on the second floor of Dillon Fieldhouse, waiting to hear the fate of their season. Across town, 29 Huskies were also anxiously tuned into ESPN to see what team they would draw for the first round of regional play. Neither team was surprised to learn its opponent. “We were all kind of thinking that it was going to be a Beanpot,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. The Crimson (10-3-4, 5-1-1 Ivy) earned the Ivy League?...
...after locking up a woman whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections that the junta then ignored, Burma's ruling brass still appears spooked by the power of the people. "Burma's leaders are clearing the decks of political activists," says Pearson, "before they announce the next round of sham political reforms." Overall, one Burmese exile group based in Thailand estimates that 2,120 Burmese now languish in jail for their political activism, nearly double the number who were in prison before last year's anti-government demonstrations...