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Coming out of a timeout, Lin got to the basket, but the senior’s shot fell short. Despite the crowd’s pleas, no foul was called...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rally Falls Short as Harvard Drops Heartbreaker | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...Lin’s shot clanged off the front rim, and the Crimson’s last-minute comeback fell short as the Harvard men’s basketball team (14-5, 3-2 Ivy) lost to Princeton (12-5, 3-0 Ivy) by three, 56-53, at Lavietes Pavilion...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rally Falls Short as Harvard Drops Heartbreaker | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...Sanford is not one of those scorned wives spewing bile all over her former spouse. She strives to put the unflattering revelations in context. Her soon-to-be ex-husband was ambitious and also restless because his father's death at a youngish age taught him that life was short. He was frugal because after his father died, he went through a colossal struggle to save the family's land. He became an attention junkie after his come-from-nowhere win made him a media darling and a party hero. And staying true to his ideals was almost impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny Sanford Dishes with Dignity in Staying True | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...track standards, Clay wasn’t successful last weekend, but the decathlete’s outlook allows him to be flexible in his definition of the word. When we inevitably come up short at some point in our four years, may we too be so content in defeat...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Olympian Races At Harvard | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...Since his election last April, Zuma has made short shrift of objections to his expansive appetite for women, calling his accusers culturally blinkered and claiming that, in a country of millions of single mothers, polygamy is actually responsible. When asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last weekend if he believed in equality for women - and whether that meant he loved all his wives equally - he replied, to laughter from the audience, "Absolutely. That's my culture. It does not take anything from me, from my political beliefs, including the belief in the equality of women." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Africa, a Scandal Over All the President's Children | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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