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...team has dominated on both offense and defense, averaging 11.62 goals per game and only allowing 4.50 goals per game. The Crimson’s all-time series with Penn now stands at 18-18, with the Quakers taking the win for the last nine years in a row. “We weren’t going to be intimidated based on their ranking,” Petropulos said. “We knew if we could stay in structure and stick to the game plan that we would be fine. But unfortunately we didn?...
...architects led by Ergün Erkoçu wanted their concept for the Polder Mosque to achieve a similar level of cool. Riffing on the Dutch idea of seeking consensus, their design features not minarets but windmills. Inside, they planned space for a hammam (or bathhouse) and a row of shops. The mosque was never meant to exist but to generate discussion. Mission accomplished: elders have sniffed that it isn't traditional enough and Dutch-born Muslims eager to see the mosque's role expand beyond prayer have applauded...
...greatest golfers of his generation, winning three majors (the last two British Opens and the 2008 PGA Championship) and giving himself the opportunity on April 9 at the U.S. Masters to become only the third man in the modern era to win three majors in a row...
...serendipity. “I’m very happy to help the team,” Boreico said. “I almost forgot to register for the Putnam. Luckily I got an email reminder right before the deadline.” For the second year in a row, Tripathy was named a Putnam fellow—an honor given to the five highest scorers on the exam. He received a prize of $2,500. Tripathy could not be reached for comment. “I didn’t prepare for it at all,” Boreico...
...from all over the country poured in. The seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors. Behind one row of houses, Charles Dickens noted "a cesspool, bubbling and seething with the constant rise of the foul products of decomposition." The grubby, "consumptive-looking ducks" swimming upon it, he wrote in 1857, resembled "the human dwellers in fould alleys as to their depressed and haggard physiognomy...