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...Harvard women’s squash team continued its recent dominance over Cornell Saturday morning at the Murr Center, defeating the Big Red, 9-0, without dropping a single game. This marked the sixth straight year that the Crimson (5-0, 3-0 Ivy) has swept Cornell (1-3, 0-3). “They rolled everyone,” assistant coach Christopher Miller said. “Not dropping a game is a hard thing to do.” Harvard came into the match following its somewhat lackluster 6-3 win over Dartmouth on Wednesday and was looking...
Perhaps only the icy winter wind that swept the bleak ruins of eastern Europe really understood?the wind that moaned through an emptiness where once people had turned up their coat-collars against the cold, young men who dreamed of great careers, young girls who dreamed of sons. There would be no careers and no sons now, for the girls and the boys were gone...
...current quickly swept the drafts down the river and away from Harvard. In 2005, after a century and a half of maintaining close ties to the campus, the magazine made a similar move...
...prime spot for viewing the consequences. Each dusk, when elephant feeding time starts, a voluntary curfew descends on the town. This summer, a few miles from his office, tourists at Victoria Falls watched horrified as an adult animal attempted a new route across the Zambezi River and was swept over the rapids. A short walk upriver, Osborn takes me to meet Catherine Lolozi, 48, whose husband Luwaya Kikomeno, 49, was stripped, disemboweled and tossed into a tree by an elephant as he walked home on a city street on June 29. Lolozi is still too traumatized to speak. Her neighbor...
...last time Labor partied quite this hard was in 1972, when Gough Whitlam swept it back to power after 23 years in the federal sin bin. On Saturday night the Labor faithful were again in raptures as they cheered the party's new savior, Kevin Rudd, and the end of John Howard's long run as Prime Minister. Best keep the ecstasy to a minimum, Rudd jokingly advised a crowd of several hundred campaign workers in Brisbane: just "have a strong cup of tea." But the beer cans went on opening. "Eleven and a half yearsh," people kept saying, happily...