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Harvard opened last weekend with a close 5-4 win over the Tigers, in perhaps the strongest team effort all season. After the singles matches and the first two doubles matches were finished, the Crimson found itself in a precarious position--tied 4-4 with one match hanging in the balance...
...called the problem DWB -- driving while black. Police departments around the country have denied that they target minority drivers for traffic stops, searches and arrests. But confirmation of the practice came this week from none other than New Jersey -- one of the states where the accusations have been the strongest in the wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera...
Harvard looks to continue its unbeaten Ivy streak this Friday in its final home match of the season against Brown and again on Sunday against Yale, who boast what is probably the third strongest team in the Ivies...
...this really a problem? The Post says that it and other newspapers have spiked Hart's strongest Christian statements. They may have been a factor in one paper's dropping the strip entirely. Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. noted, "We don't promote individual religions anywhere in the paper." In a subsequent interview he says he has run much of Hart's religious material, excluding rare strips that could be taken for direct attacks on other faiths or were "very strongly proselytizing, as though it were advertising rather than a comic strip." Meanwhile, the current issue of Focus...
...whup-ass in the same movie--this is smart filmmaking. Larry and Andy Wachowski, the Chicago-bred brothers who wrote and directed The Matrix, are smart in a way moviegoers love and Hollywood moguls cherish: the picture, shot in Australia for $63 million, had the year's strongest opening weekend and pulled in a robust $50.7 million in its first nine days. The film's producer, Joel Silver, says the boys have a sequel in mind, and cannily adds, "The more success the movie has, the more willing they'll be to write it down." Suddenly Larry, 33, and Andy...