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Junior high jumper Dina Emde did not have to sweat out such a close finish as she cruised to an ECAC bid. The Crimson notched a sweep of the event, taking all four places, as Emde came out on top with a jump of 1.70 meters. Harvard’s dominance in the event showed that the women’s high jump continues to be a Crimson strength, even after the departure of four-time All-American Becky Christensen...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women Win, Men Second At Home | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...state-run hospice in central Bloemfontein. Well-used fly strips hung between fluorescent lights, pale blue paint flaked off the walls, and fresh blood stained her sheets, the rusty bedpost and the linoleum floor. Sindiswa had full-blown AIDS and tuberculosis, and she was three months pregnant. Sweat poured from her forehead as she whispered her story through parched lips covered with sores. A few blocks away, the roars of rugby fans erupted from Free State Stadium. In June the roars will be from fans of the World Cup. (See pictures of South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Dunia, a land of "palms and sweat and hot sauces" and stilt river villages, is clearly modeled after 1950s oil-rich, Anglophile Brunei. In Devil of a State a half-deaf U.N. adviser lives in the Residency, a version of the Bubungan Dua Belas, where British residents and high commissioners in Brunei lived until Brunei achieved full independence in 1984. Some streets in Bandar Seri Begawan retain their colonial names (Pretty, Stoney, McArthur), while the wooden House of Twelve Roofs is now a museum hung with photographs feting Brunei's "special relationship" with Britain. It helps to explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthony Burgess's Take on Brunei | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

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