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...become apparent that in the world of college wrestling, the Big Ten spells trouble.Iowa, Ohio State, and Penn State claimed the top three spots last weekend at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo., leading a Big Ten group that overwhelmed the field with 10 teams in the top 17.Sending only two grapplers to the tournament, the Harvard squad had little interest in the team competition. But freshman Corey Jantzen (141 lbs) and sophomore J.P. O’Connor (149) felt the sting of the dominant conference, both falling to Big Ten opponents.O’Connor, ranked third...
...After ten years of violence, the Maoists, the political parties, and the royal family have agreed on a roadmap for the future of Nepal: a Constituent Assembly (CA) in 2008. The CA plan required many long meetings, boycotts, riots and lives before all the three key players in Nepal could agree on a set of rules. The eventual compromise was a win-win solution for everyone. The political parties had their demands for elections met, the Maoists were able to induct direct representation in the elections, and the royal family was allowed to continue till after the CA when...
...Maliki has also extended his deadline for Basra fighters to lay down their arms by ten days. Originally the deadline was set to expire today. But Iraqi media sources say Mahdi Army fighters are holding large swaths of the city and the battle appears far from over...
...think you gave a historically significant speech, huh?" Valerie Jarrett teased Barack Obama after he delivered his well-received address on race, in Philadelphia. During the speech, Jarrett sat next to Michelle Obama, the two old friends promising each other they wouldn't cry. "Ten minutes in, and we just looked at each other, and the tears started flowing," Jarrett says. But in the greenroom afterward, she was back to ribbing the Illinois Senator on the comparisons already being made to Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy...
...don’t expect that everyone would memorize our fight song or sport more Crimson-colored gear and we’ll suddenly have the fun and friendship of a Big Ten school. But I do expect we could celebrate genuinely our friends’, peers’, and school’s accomplishments, rather than mask deep cynicism about crowded housing and the Core with beer and circuses...