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...When world leaders gather, they turn bustling cities into Hollywood sets. Hosts scrub 1200 year old buildings until their facades are unnaturally bright and cordon off well-swept streets to thwart protesters and terrorists. In Prague this week, there was very little stir in famous Wenceslas Square and in restaurants rows of starchy napkins stood tented at each empty place. Diners had either been deterred by police cordons or fled the city to avoid the potential traffic nightmare...
...soldiers. God is great. God is great." For that flight of fancy, which he says was meant metaphorically, he was sentenced under laws designed to keep Islamic fundamentalism at bay. He served four months in prison and was barred for life from public office. Nonetheless, his party swept to victory, partly as a protest against Turkey's Old Guard politicians, who have led the country into an economic crisis. But the election was also a vote against the kinds of laws that put Erdogan in jail. "There would be no need for a call for Shari'a," Gulden Sonmez...
...Harvard swept the North Country road trip for the first time since Jan. 1993, routing St. Lawrence and holding off Clarkson last weekend. The two wins move the Crimson (4-1, 4-1 ECAC) into a tie for first in the league with Brown...
Those words shrilly echoed through the Murr Center Tuesday night as the No. 14 Harvard field hockey team was swept by the realization that its NCAA tournament road would begin at Jordan Field on Saturday, later...
...Friday night, the Crimson struggled to achieve offensive consistency and dropped a crucial five-game match to Princeton, a team Harvard had swept on the road merely two weeks ago. The next night, hoping to remain in first place with a win, the Crimson was unable to shake the Quakers, spotting them early leads and playing sloppy at times en route to a three-game sweep...