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...points in the ECAC standings. “To leave with a victory tonight, those points are huge for us,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said. Harvard drew first blood late in the opening frame when junior winger Ryan Maki tallied a strike at 16:32—the first time the Crimson had scored in the initial period since Dec. 8th in a 1-0 victory at New Hampshire. Skating in along the right boards, Maki wound up and fired an unexpected slapshot from the blue line that left D’Alba...
...Israel's 1981 strike on Iraq ignited a diplomatic bonfire, as the U.S., Europe, and the UN Security Council all condemned the operation. But in the years since, many Western observers have conceded that the pre-emptive strike, which set back Baghdad's nuclear weapons program by years, was justified-especially given Saddam's subsequent warmongering and readiness to use non-conventional weapons. With Iran now on course to build its own bomb, the question on everyone's mind is, would Israel do it again...
...world. In a show of solidarity for their journalistic brethren in Denmark, television stations and newspapers in other European countries have shown some or all of the drawings, the most controversial of which portrays Muhammad's headdress transformed into a bomb with a burning fuse. Their intention was to strike a blow for free speech, but by publishing the cartoons, Europe's media outlets were perceived by some Muslims to be willfully ignoring religious sensitivities, which fueled the anger even more. Yet the demands by Muslim leaders that European governments punish journalists who have run the cartoons--Middle Eastern Interior...
...triple-triple jump. Still, the winter silences are made to be broken: by the downhiller cracking out of the gate, the grunting speed skater leaning into the finish line, the crowd erupting when the ice princess sticks her triple-triple. All that winter music is about to strike up in Torino, the capital of Italy's northwestern region of Piedmont. Starting with an eclectic mix of classical and techno beats at the opening ceremony this Friday, the 2006 Winter Olympics will run through an 84-event schedule that concludes Feb. 26 in perhaps its most raucous moment...
...adolescence, from the characters’ introspective first-person voice-overs with their unabashed expression of idealism, to the casting of “heartthrob” Colin Farrell (“Alexander”) as the angst-ridden, yet hopeful, John Smith.The film’s themes also strike close to the preoccupations of people in their late teens and early twenties: Malick explores the vagaries of love, war and the indefinite attractiveness of Farrell in various states of scruff. Whether or not Malick’s retelling of the Pocahontas story is more accurate than the Disney movie...