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...fans don't like it, but the ref made a great call, calling a charge on Jeremy Lin. Lin was recklessly dribbling the ball and the Columbia defender displaying solid fundamentals getting his feet set. Columbia cradling a four point lead, give it to their big man, #55. He reciprocates with the basket AND the foul. Free throw coming up. Columbia 60, Harvard...
...bright spot this season, a league-opening victory over Dartmouth at home in early January, the Harvard men have suffered through five straight Ivy League defeats away from Cambridge. Among them was a 13-point loss at the hands of rival Yale, and a 20-point setback against a solid Brown team last weekend. “It’s definitely been a while and we’ve always played well at home,” junior forward Evan Harris said. “Hopefully we can get back on track this weekend.” Harvard will...
...part of the mildly apathetic global Gen X brigade, but like many an urban Turk, I was raised on a solid diet of modernist mantras. The secular zeal of Turkey's nation-builders runs in my blood. As an air force pilot, my grandfather fought alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, in the country's war for independence. After it was won in 1923, his job was to help build Turkey's first fleet of biplanes. My grandmother was what's called an "Ataturk girl" - like many others, she was put on a train to Germany...
...thought of that family frequently. People outside China always want to know what will spur political change, what will turn an authoritarian dictatorship to democracy. Conventional wisdom says it happens when a society develops a solid middle class with rising expectations. That, anyway, is the story of Taiwan and South Korea. But in China, my neighbors, even though they are often, in private, bitterly critical of the government, seem content to leave it well enough alone. Having made the Short March, they have a vested interest in stability...
...outstanding American arrest warrant for Mughniyah, for the murder of a Navy diver in 1985. The diver was a passenger on TWA 847, which was diverted to Beirut. Mughniyah personally ordered the diver's murder. And, unlike other cases where Mughniyah's role was shadowy, there is solid evidence for his presence in the hijacking; his fingerprints were found on the airplane...