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Harvard maintained a 53-52 lead with 2:28 showing on the clock, but Yale held the ball for over a minute on its ensuing possession, grabbing two offensive rebounds before Harvard fouled center Dominick Martin. Martin, who entered the game shooting .576 from the stripe, sank a pair of free throws with 1:21 left—the final points of the contest...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Comes Up One Possession Short Against Yale | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Didn't you just know that if the U.S. ever sank so low as to provide a legal rationale for torture, it would be gift-wrapped in the American dream? The Judiciary Committee's heart was warmed by Gonzales to the point of thrombosis. An exception was Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. "We have dramatically undermined the war effort by ... playing cute with the law," Graham said, adding that the use of torture had caused us to lose "the moral high ground" and become "more like our enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Outrage? | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...seemed much more comfortable in the second half, however, shooting 4-of-9 from the field and tallying 13 points, including two key buckets late in the game to help secure the victory for the Crimson. He even sank a three-point shot, just his second of the season...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Substitutes Prove Crucial for Both Squads | 1/5/2005 | See Source »

...seemed much more comfortable in the second half, however, shooting 4-of-9 from the field and tallying 13 points, including two key buckets late in the game to help secure the victory for the Crimson. He even sank a three-point shot, just his second of the season...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. HOOPS NOTEBOOK: Cusworth Returns to the Lineup | 12/21/2004 | See Source »

...Secretary and close buddy of Prime Minister Tony Blair, will replace Blunkett. He has a big job: Blair is grounding his re-election campaign this year on the security agenda Clarke now runs, including controversial compulsory ID cards. But the day after Blunkett quit, the country's highest court sank one of his toughest law-and-order legacies. It voted 8-1 that foreign terror suspects could no longer be detained indefinitely without trial, because the emergency the government declared to square this with European human rights law was invalid, and indefinite detention too extreme. Shami Chakrabarti, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Man Falls Hard | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

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