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...tough if not ugly matchup against Brown, the Harvard men’s basketball team was up six, 59-53, with just under two minutes to play.A missed rebound and resultant three made it 59-56, but with senior stalwart Drew Housman—a career 81 percent free-throw shooter—going to the line for a one-and-one with 1:08 to play, the Crimson seemed to have little reason to worry. But after a missed first shot and a Bears layup on the other end, it was 59-58 with 47 seconds to play...
...their last meeting, the Crimson stormed back from as many as 14 points down and won the game, 64-63, on a free-throw by junior forward Jeremy Lin with no time remaining...
...Both meetings between these two teams could not have been any closer. Although one game ended on a clutch free-throw and the other on a desperation heave, each game was actually decided by which team made the hustle plays...
...This new policy is misguided and harmful for several reasons. First and foremost, the turn toward protectionism in the labor market mandates that the United States essentially throw away much of its already-sparse annual investment in human capital. Every year, American colleges and universities invest millions of dollars in the education of talented students from overseas. Considering the depth of the current crisis, it is foolish to turn away thousands of highly skilled, incredibly productive, and well-qualified candidates on the basis of their nationality...
...questionable value; it was almost certainly obtained under duress and has been widely circulated. But as a narrative of the transformation of a country boy into a jihadist, it is believable and - more than that - important. Understand Qasab's story and you begin to understand why young men throw in their lot with Islamic extremists, why Pakistan may be the most dangerous country in the world, why the half-century-long dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is not just a local problem, why education reform in the poor world is an issue of national security in the rich...