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...shot 71 percent from the field in the second half to overcome a seven-point halftime deficit and down the Quakers 77-65 at the Palestra. After a poor-shooting first half, the Crimson (8-12, 4-3 Ivy) came out hot after the break and sustained an offensive tear that buried Penn within the opening minutes of the second frame. “[That second half] definitely helps you swallow that kind of a first half,” freshman forward Katie Rollins said. “And it gives you confidence that you can shoot poorly and turn...
...influential Hamas official, told TIME a week before the vote. The Hamas military commander who spoke with TIME also suggests that the party may be willing to bow to reality: "There are facts on the ground that we cannot close our eyes to. We are not going to tear up all the agreements" that have been negotiated...
...just enigmatic portraits of modern strife. In it, the Push Man, a student who earns extra money by cramming people into subway trains during rush hours, has the tables turned on him when he meets a sexually aggressive woman whose equally voracious girlfriends work him into a corner and tear his clothes off. The story ends on a day when the crowds overwhelm the Push Man and he becomes trapped on the moving train, helplessly pleading to be let off, "I'm the Push...
Other stories take on similarly major themes in the form of small family dramas. In "Tear Gas" a man rides on a train to the arranged marriage of his daughter. As he rides, the story flashes back to the Korean War when, as a child, he helplessly watches his father being dragged off by communist soldiers through the haze of a village smudge pot. Now a firm member of the middle class, and so staunchly nationalist that he insists on his daughter marrying a policeman in spite of her obvious unhappiness, he arrives in the city just as an anti...
...President Laurent Gbagbo?be dissolved, more than 300 U.N. peacekeepers were forced to pull out of bases in the west of the country after they were attacked by armed groups loyal to Gbagbo. In the main city of Abidjan, protesters surrounded the U.N. headquarters and were held back by tear gas and rifle fire...