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...color of the desert dingo, lie in the sun in their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than on her belief in their ecological status. "They're Australia's lion - and everyone knows that if you take out the top predator, things go bad," she says, as puppies roll in balls of golden fluff at her feet. "The outside world seems far more interested in the dingo...
...came here I wouldn’t have expected it.” Owais Siddiqui ’07, the former external relations officer of HIS, said she thinks such incidents are extremely rare. “I don’t think that there is an anti-Muslim sentiment on campus at all,” she said. “[Incidents like this] are few and far between.” But Siddiqui said that Muslims may be more prone to such attacks because of the hijab, or head covering, a physical indicator of their faith...
...game, its opponents had shot only 36 percent from the field. Harvard struggled to keep up its suffocating defense in the first half, allowing UC Davis to connect on 13-of-22 opportunities—a 59 percent clip. “In the locker room at halftime, the sentiment was that the first half was some of the worst basketball we had played [this year],” Cusworth said. “We were really struggling on defense, we did not have the intensity or the energy that we had [earlier this season].” The defense...
...excuse to play badly in the first half.”Harvard turned up the defensive pressure after the break, holding UC Davis to only 7-of-21 from the floor while out-rebounding the Aggies by five. “In the locker room at halftime, basically the sentiment was the first half was some of the worst basketball we’ve played in our four games,” Cusworth said. “We came out with a lot of energy in the second half, with the determination to shut them down.”Cusworth...
...defeat of Yale this past weekend was truly delightful, and a beloved mascot will help transform such pro-Harvard emotion from a once-a-year phenomenon to an unflagging affection. Furthermore, the mascot will help create a positive school spirit that is separate from the anti-Yale sentiment. I hope that at next year’s Game our cries of “Yale sucks” will be at least matched by our chants of “Go [Mascot]s!” Nikhil G. Mathews ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government...