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Eight years Brown has been waiting for its chance to be on the winning side of a nailbiter against Harvard.In 2004, it was a strong Crimson team that put together a 35-34 comeback victory; in 2005, it was a 38-35 double overtime win; and last year Harvard shut down a potential game-winning drive late in the fourth to take the W, 24-17.But with 1:03 left in the game and Harvard down two with a two-point conversion from the one-and-a-half yard line to go, it was the Bears that finally came up with...
Earlier this year, Spike Lee picked a fight with Clint Eastwood over the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood's Iwo Jima films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Clint opined that "a guy like that should shut his face"; Spike replied, "The man is not my father, and we're not on a plantation either." No doubt that Lee was voicing a social grievance, but he was also tub-thumping some early publicity for his own WW II film - the one with the John Wayne clip and the typically smoldering Spike Lee quip...
...overheating of a connection between two of the collider’s superconducting electromagnets, and the subsequent leakage of hydrogen into the collider tunnel resulted in the announcement on Saturday that the structure would have to be shut down for repairs. Further reports have indicated that the collider will not be run again until the spring...
...League Conference last year with the highest number of receptions with an average of 7.80 a game. Farnham is not the only receiver that the Crimson has to worry about. Junior receiver Bobby Sewall, who was second in Ivy League receptions only to Farnham, must also be shut down. Harvard needs to force turnovers and get the ball back into senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s hands to give more chances to the Crimson offense. With the Bears’ increased passing threats, Harvard’s inexperienced secondary, led by pre-season All-American Andrew Berry, will...
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars - some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo. "It's worse than the fire of Hell," he wrote...