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...Marion Hume, who wrote the cover story on Australia's far-flung islands, has logged more miles in her career as a Sydney- and London-based writer than she would care to admit. Steadfast and unafraid, Hume will dash off to Beijing on a moment's notice and can touch down in a remote corner of New Zealand and uncover a cutting-edge, global boutique...
When the Harvard women’s basketball team finally found its shooting touch at the USF Shootout this past weekend, things started looking up. If the Crimson (1-1) wants to win close games, though, it will have to find its groove earlier: trouble scoring in the first half buried Harvard on Friday and nearly did so again yesterday. Facing a double-digit halftime deficit Friday evening against Loyola (1-1) in the tourney’s first round, the Crimson chipped away throughout the second half but eventually fell 78-69. It took a 44-point second half...
...visiting professorship at the University of Toronto, lost a controversial bid for this same party leadership position in 2006. That loss was credited mostly to the 27 years he spent outside the country, a decision believed to have caused many Canadians to view him as out of touch. “There was a feeling he hadn’t paid his dues,” said Andrew Cohen, an associate professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University and a prominent Canadian journalist. “Canadians knew him as a writer, a scholar, a polemicist, but they...
...really didn’t touch on the moral aspect, which was big for me because I’m an atheist,” said Jordan A. Monge ’12. “But he did really touch on the importance of monogamy in our society, which I think that everyone, even an atheist like me, can agree with...
...conducted its own inquiry into some of Grimes' claims and wrote a report dismissing them as inconsequential. But the report shows that investigators did not question U.S. Marshals or jurors who had allegedly been in touch with the prosecution...