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...possession game. The closest it came was four, after Housman’s layup with seven seconds left made it 70-66. But the Bears just inbounded the ball to Huffman, who held it as the clock wound down to zero, sending the Crimson to its third straight setback. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Basketball Losing Streak Grows at Brown | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

Following the lone blemish on the Harvard men’s squash team’s 2007 schedule—a 5-4 setback last Wednesday against perennial powerhouse Trinity—the focus shifted towards the team’s next preseason goal of winning the Ivy League crown. But an injury on Saturday left a dark cloud over the Crimson’s title chances entering a road tilt Princeton on Sunday, and the Tigers took advantage, ruining an otherwise clean Harvard conference slate for the second year in a row. Now, the team’s most...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Squash Can't Overcome Princeton | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

...Mecca accord reached between rival factions of Hamas and Fatah to form a national unity government, but there is no such sentiment coming out of Washington. "Peace is not at hand," a senior U.S. official said today. But while the Bush Administration may view the deal as a setback for the prospects of Middle East peace, many observers think it is really a setback for U.S. influence in the region - especially its goal of isolating Hamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. the Big Loser in the Mecca Deal? | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

...Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, now director of the Brookings Institutions' Saban Center for Middle East Policy, argues that the Mecca accord is a "considerable embarrassment" for Rice and a setback for her hopes of brokering Israeli-Palestinian talks that will lay the groundwork for the establishment of a peaceful Palestinian state. State Department officials said today that Rice still plans to travel to Jerusalem Feb. 19 for Israeli-Palestinian-U.S. trilateral talks with Abbas, [popularly known as Abu Mazen] and Israeli President Ehud Olmert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. the Big Loser in the Mecca Deal? | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

...arrival of new drugs for depression and psychosis in the early 1990s was a setback for psychotherapy, which some doctors began to portray as a chicken-soup remedy compared to the magic bullets they believed they now had. But in recent years, research has revealed the drugs' limitations and led to calls for a rethinking of the drug-based approach to treating depression. Aside from lifestyle changes, the only alternative for sufferers is some form of psychotherapy, whose quality could be lifted, experts say, if governments required people calling themselves psychotherapists to meet certain standards. Some of Freud's ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Couch | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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