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Their heads snapped from side to side, eyeing passes their tangled feet had little chance of carrying them to. But despite Lafayette’s inability to control the perimeter passes the Harvard women’s basketball team whipped across court, the visitors might have stood a chance, if only they had been able to stop the player inside the paint whose hands nearly each and every one of those deliveries eventually found—co-captain Hana Peljto...
Undergraduate Council representatives stood outside of the Matthews and Straus common rooms to swipe students in so that students could thaw and dress...
...years ago, India had a taste of what can happen if the hard-liners in the BJP seize power from the moderates. In the western state of Gujarat, Hindus embarked on a rampage that left about 2,000 Muslims dead. The police stood by while local BJP activists armed with swords, tridents and electoral lists raped Muslim women; beheaded, burned and disemboweled Muslim men, and torched Muslim-owned businesses. Tens of thousands were forced to flee. No one has yet been brought to book for the mayhem, and the Gujarat courts have proved incapable of convicting the rapists, looters...
GREAT PERFORMANCES: Seven actors who stood...
...Queen reigned for 31 years, crossing the Atlantic 1,001 times, three of them carrying Winston Churchill. During World War II, she gave up her old rich crowd to carry servicemen and their families. She was much beloved. So last week, when Queen Elizabeth II stood in blustery winds on a pier in Southampton, England, and released a bottle of champagne against the bow of the dowager's heir to christen her the Queen Mary 2, the new vessel, the largest cruise ship ever built, had a huge legacy to live...