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...second. But another BU surge as the clock wound down gave the Terriers a 60-47 cushion before Harvard began fouling to stop the clock. GUARD PLAY Senior guard Laura Robinson picked up the slack in a Harvard backcourt missing injured co-captain Jess Holsey, who missed her third consecutive game and sat on the sidelines with a taped hand. Holsey, out indefinitely with the injury, watched roommate Robinson pour in a career-high 24 points on 8-of-13 shooting. Robinson went 4-for-5 from three-point range and didn’t miss a shot...
...newcomers came from a broad spectrum of the economic and political landscape, yet by the second or third generation most of them had assimilated into the French population. Why is that not happening with the Muslim community? Muslims were welcomed and provided with government assistance they would never have received in their own Islamic countries. Although it is incumbent on governments to provide adequate education and job opportunities to minorities, it is also the responsibility of Muslim communities embedded in the Western world to start asking themselves the hard questions about their failure to assimilate. Until then, there will...
...telling one old grizzly, guerrilla fighter: "Stop it." He said, "Give me time." Eighteen months later he stopped it. That man faced reality. I'm convinced that his visit to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, that journey, in November '78, was a shock to him. He expected three third-world cities; he saw three second-world cities, better than Shanghai or Beijing. As his aircraft door closed, I turned around to my colleagues, I said, [his aides] are getting a shellacking. They gave him the wrong brief. Within weeks, the People's Daily switched lines, that Singapore is no longer...
Skoll's bet on movies with a message may pay off yet. Syriana, Participant's venture with Clooney, and its third and most ambitious movie to date, opened nationwide in late November and has received favorable reviews and plenty of buzz. Based on the book See No Evil by former cia operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club...
The No. 9 Harvard women’s team has relied on its penalty kill all season long.Heading into this past weekend, the Crimson knew it would be put to the test as No. 3 New Hampshire came to Bright Hockey Center with its top ranked power-play unit in...