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...match didn’t really begin until the third game, and by that time victory had already slipped out of reach for Harvard.The Crimson men’s volleyball team (7-8, 3-4 Hay) took on the Trojans of Mount Olive (14-5) at the Malkin Athletic Center Saturday afternoon but lacked the energy to stay with the feisty visitors.“We just started out really slowly,” senior Jamie Crooks said. “Our starting point was so low that by the time we came back to really play...
Chris Cooper is one of those actorswho, despite co-starring roles in dozensof films, may trigger only a vague mentalimage. From the homophobic colonel in“American Beauty” to the villainous CIAboss in “The Bourne Identity,” Cooper hasthe ability to slip quietly and completelyinto a role. This ability is prominentlyshowcased in independent director IraSachs’ new film, “Married Life,” in whichhe plays Harry Allen, a gentle and romanticman who decides that the only way toleave his wife without breaking her heartis to murder...
They were one win away. One win separated the Harvard women’s basketball team from a repeat of its status as the sole Ivy League champions.But that one win slipped away.The Crimson (18-10, 11-3 Ivy) entered Yale’s John J. Lee Amphitheatre in control of its fate. As the clock ticked down on the regular season, however, the Bulldogs (7-22, 7-7 Ivy) took that control away in a painful 64-58 defeat Saturday night.“We had everything to win,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said...
...foreign policy advisor in Obama’s presidential campaign team, publicizing issues including United Nations reform, the genocide in Darfur, and American detainment camps. Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School. Power’s slip also drew attention to other comments she made to the BBC, in which she said that Obama’s campaign trail promise to bring troops home from Iraq within a year was a “best-case scenario” to be revisited if he was elected. The Obama campaign...
...inside Israel, a likely response to Israel's hammering of Gaza last week, in which 110 Palestinians, half of them civilians, were killed. After Hamas won the January 2006 general elections in the Palestinian territories, it halted suicide bombings, though other Palestinian groups persisted. Many suicide bombers tried to slip into Israel, and most were caught, lulling many Israelis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem into thinking that the nightmare of the Intifada bombings was behind them. No longer. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem