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...Semester Break Our March 27 story on the student protests in Paris reported that the rebels lacked the revolutionary optimism of those who shut down the Sorbonne in 1968. TIME devoted a cover story to that strike, the start of a revolt that changed history...
...Julia Koulbitskaya and Yulia Rivelis. Following them were Wang and Schnitter, who edged Alexis Plukas and Raluca Ciochina 9-7. “The doubles points were critical because [Penn] had a huge crowd,” Graham said. “Getting that [overall] doubles point shut the crowd down and gave us some confidence, too.” In singles, Wang at No. 1 and Peterzan at No. 3 won their matches with little difficulty as they defeated Rivelis 6-4, 6-2 and Plukas 6-2, 6-0, respectively. Schnitter at No. 5 won her first...
...final season in Cambridge, Castellanos has seemingly put it all together for the first time, harnessing his always-potent pitches consistently to post quality starts. Yesterday, he needed just 94 pitches to shut down the Bulldogs over seven innings...
...humans to hide intentions. “God gave us language so we can conceal our thoughts,” Dennett responded. Questions from the audience focused on issues such as free will, spirituality, and what constitutes certainty and proof. “Proof is that which makes everybody shut up,” Gilbert said. “No,” Hauser responded to break the silence, prompting laughter from the audience...
...It’s tempting to point our democratic finger at Big Bad Red China, especially since they often make it so easy. After all, this is the country whose government plans to shut down Beijing’s factories for a month to stop the omnipresent smog for the 2008 Olympics, and who issued a law governing the amount of hours their citizens can play online videogames...