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...loss of 2008—a 62-54 decision to Cornell in Ithaca—but at 3-1 sits in a four-way tie atop the Ancient Eight standings with Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Big Red. Last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, six-foot sophomore Melissa Colburne and her 15.4 points per game lead the way for the Bulldogs. On paper, Colburne is a traditional post player—she’s in the Ancient Eight top ten in both blocks and offensive rebounds—but Yale’s strength lies...
...most ambitious health-care proposals since the Clintons' plan died in 1994. Hillary Clinton's proposal, in particular, attempts to avoid some of the pitfalls of that earlier effort. Liberals hope the public's anxiety about health care, currently running high, will help them finally achieve universal coverage after six decades of trying...
...Mohammad Fayaz, a doctor who six years ago derided to follow his lifelong dream of becoming a Pashtu movie direc tor, the recent threats are a new blow to an already unstable industry. Indian imports and the rise of cable television have eroded box-office takes for several years. People worry that cinema halls will be the next target of extremists, he says. "The industry has been in a long fall Then the bombs crashed the business." Nonetheless, he intends to keep directing movies as long as he is able. "Movies are my addiction," he says. His next film...
...represent a katsina spirit simply through its facial features; at times an artist will choose to draw rather than carve the body. Ducharme also says that he emphasized the colors used to paint the dolls’ masks because they are symbolic in Hopi art: the Hopi use six colors to denote direction or the region from which a particular animal involved in a ritual comes.While Ducharme also exhibited real katsina dolls with several books about the carvings and Hopi culture in general, the exhibit was evidently centered on his photographs. “I’m attracted...
...nomination, he still finds himself in a struggle to win over the party's skeptical conservatives without turning off the swing voters he'll need to win the White House. He was the big winner of Super Tuesday delegates, but he captured only nine states, including six blue ones, while Romney and Huckabee combined to win 12 states, including 10 red ones. McCain has owned independents and moderates, but Huckabee thumped him in the Bible Belt, and McCain even trailed Romney among self-described conservatives in his home state of Arizona. He's lucky that Romney and Huckabee have both...