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...Crimson caravan rolls into New Haven tonight, where Harvard faces the Yale team that began the Crimson's Briggs skid. The Elis (11-11, 5-5) walked out of Briggs with a 98-91 double-overtime thriller two weeks...
...Baby, Just Win: UNH has become something of a media darling lately. The Wildcats are the not-so-proud owners of the nation's longest home losing streak. When hapless Delaware stopped the Wildcats in Durham last week, the skid hit 31 games...
...former Skid Row hotel, rehabbed and reopened two years ago as a rescue mission for homeless mentally ill people. The very design of the building reflects its treatment approach. Staff offices are scattered throughout the facility to avoid any sense of official hierarchy. Glass panels enable staff to see most areas without having to enter them. Traditionally, mental-health programs separate the most severely disturbed from others; as a patient's condition improves, he must move to a new building, new doctors, a new community. But shuttling between clinics can take its toll. "Change is really disruptive in these people...
...Angeles, that means 12 out of 20 community mental-health centers must close. The city's remaining clinics will act only as crisis centers. Among the hard hit will be the Skid Row Mental Health Clinic, an innovative facility that, for example, provides bathrooms, washers and dryers and money management. The clinic, which serves 1,000 people a month, has had to reduce its 15-member psychiatric staff to five. The skeleton crew has little time for outreach -- going into the streets and cajoling the mentally ill into accepting help. PET (for psychiatric emergency team) units used to respond...
Callahan is questionable for Saturday's game against Fordham. The Crimson has never faced the Rams and could use its Captain's blocking talents to reverse its two game skid...