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...Harvard men’s basketball team could not sustain the momentum from its season-opening win over Fairfield last Friday, as it fell to Holy Cross last night in Worcester...
This is the kind of holiday we need right now, an intrinsically complicated one that comes at the end of a bitter harvest and yet finds something sweet to celebrate. Everyone is a pilgrim now, stripped down to bare essentials and a single carry-on bag to sustain us in a strange new world. So no wonder people are making a special effort to get home this year, set the table, unfold the napkins, make the time for a messy conversation with the people who know us best. This is where we find out how we are really doing...
...Kabul, it's worth remembering that the Taliban are bloodied but not yet beaten - they've surrendered most of their territory without much of a fight, and could potentially regroup to wage a guerrilla campaign from the mountains. While they're unlikely to recover lost cities, they could sustain a low-intensity war for years. So despite the liberation of Kabul, it's too early to tell whether Afghanistan's agony is finally at an end, or simply about to open another chapter...
...There's no question of peace being at hand - the U.S. will sustain military pressure on the Taliban at least until Al Qaeda is crippled. But its diplomatic priority now may be to ensure that freshly liberated Kabul doesn't become the prize in an all-new Afghan civil...
...expects that the team will use more substitutes than during the regular season. Harvard’s lack of substitutes was particularly evident in its 1-0 overtime loss at UConn on Oct. 24, when the Huskies brought in waves of fresh legs, and Harvard couldn’t sustain any attack outside of the opening minutes of each half...