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...game that featured 40 turnovers, 22 by Harvard, the Crimson (2-0) prevailed 70-55 over the Crusaders (2-1) to pick up its first road victory, something it did not accomplish until the seventh game of the season last year. Harvard ended a five-game losing streak to Holy Cross, earning its first victory over the Crusaders since...
Espiritu has adjusted fairly easily. But Roliza Aguilar, who is teaching sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Dickey Hill Elementary and Middle School in Baltimore, has had a more difficult time. "Everyone needs a lot of attention," she says. "If you asked me to tell you how many of them are disciplined, I could count them on five fingers. In the Philippines we only had mild behavior problems, and they're easily addressed because of the culture, the family and value given to adults." In addition, she taught only two periods a day in the Philippines...
...past two years, the only wrestler to hold the highest sumo rank of yokozuna has been Asashoryu, a 25-year-old sensation from Mongolia (where he was born Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj). Asashoryu has won the past six grand sumo tournaments, and he appears to be on track to win his seventh, which would be a record. One of the most popular up-and-comers today is Kotooshu, 22, a Bulgarian (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov) with quick feet and even quicker arm throws. Kotooshu is a media superstar and national sex symbol, dubbed "the [David] Beckham of Sumo" by the Japanese press...
...Souter in the annual Ames Moot Court competition. The contest draws some of the country’s prominent legal minds to judge the final round. Along with Justice Souter, Emilio Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Ilana Diamond Rovner for the Seventh Circuit were on the bench this year. Last night’s arguments culminated a year of effort by two teams of six students, who won the opportunity to compete after defeating several of their classmates in a preliminary competition that included the preparation of briefs and oral arguments...
Judge Richard A. Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals criticized the use of foreign precedents in American jurisprudence—an issue that has been thrust into the spotlight by a recent court decision on juvenile execution—at the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday evening. In the case, Roper v. Simmons, the justices decided that the execution of juveniles violates the Eighth Amendment, relying in part on foreign law to justify their decision. Vicki C. Jackson of Georgetown University and Ernest A Young of the University of Texas also...