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...losses drop Harvard to 5-5 in the Ivies, good for a tie with Columbia for fifth place. Yale and Brown both swept the weekend, and surprisingly Yale sits in a three-way tie for first with Penn and Princeton. While mathematically not out of the title chase, the Crimson's chances are slim...
...China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s, Chinese ultra-nationalists marauded across the countryside, decapitating missionaries in the xenophobic Boxer Rebellion. But it was only after the Communist Party swept to power in 1949 that evangelists were finally expelled and extensive church lands reclaimed for farming. Most religious leaders later spent decades in re-education camps. When China reopened to the West in the late 1970s, missionaries were among the first to enter, often as the only people willing...
...debate over whether to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, known as ANWR(pronounced An-war), is shaping up as the defining environmental battle of the Bush presidency. For months, George W. Bush has spoken in favor of drilling for oil in the refuge. As rolling brownouts swept California, he argued that Alaskan oil exploration would keep the crisis from spreading--even though oil-fired generators produce just 1% of California's electricity...
...anxiety that swept through Chillicothe after that hit the housing market first: end-of-the-year sales dropped 40%. "It was as though somebody had shut the world down and didn't let us know," says Diane Carnes, president of Scioto Valley Association of Realtors. The fear spread to the mayor's office, which, in the face of declining tax receipts, put all capital construction on hold. The potholes on Water Street won't be paved this year, and the swimming pool won't get new plumbing. It even rattled charities. For just the third time in 17 years...
...Crimson's bottom third turned in clutch performances, as senior Katie Gregory and freshmen Ashley Harmeling and Kirstin Wadwha swept the seventh through ninth spots for Harvard. Each woman won in convincing fashion, 3-0. Harmeling was brutally efficient in her defeat of Quaker freshman Quincy Riley, giving up only three points in winning...