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After weeks of preparation and grueling two-a-days, Harvard men’s water polo hit the pool looking to make a splash. Instead, the squad sputtered in its first action of the season at the MIT Invitational this past weekend.Ten different players found the back of the net for the Crimson (0-3), but Harvard dropped all of its contests, falling to No. 13 Pacific, 17-4, Claremont 10-9, and Redlands, 15-7, at the Al and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness center.“[This weekend] there have been a lot of good steps...
...Christian Poveda, who spent years chronicling their activity and evolution. Poveda was shot in the head, killed, say police, by the very gang members he had been filming earlier in the day. Gang related deaths average about 10 a day throughout the country, according to local newspaper accounts, which splash news of the mayhem across their front pages daily...
...July 2009, right in the teeth of the biggest business story to come along in decades. The economy dominates the front page - that is, after a mandatory splash of Michael Jackson. There is more interest, argument and passion surrounding the condition and future of American business than there has been in several generations. And yet, in the space of three months, two business magazines - the organs that exist to offer the stuff people are clamoring for - have been abandoned. One, Portfolio, a newbie, was closed. The other, Business Week, an old stalwart, is up for sale, according to reports that...
...Flanagan's Dickens is a man who has only ever lived emotionally through his novels. Acting in Collins' play, which was called The Frozen Deep, he sets free feelings he was accustomed to keeping tightly confined, and his co-star, the toothsome Ellen Ternan, finds herself right in the splash zone...
...surrounded by fields of bright green rape, ridges slashed with limestone outcrops and plunging waterfalls. But these days the region's grandest sight is man-made: the Baling River Bridge. Due to be completed early next year, this 1.4-mile (2.25 km) marvel of engineering is a jarringly conspicuous splash of 21st century technology amid Guizhou's farms and rice fields, which haven't changed much in thousands of years. It's as if the Golden Gate Bridge had been dropped into some bucolic Middle-earth mountainscape...