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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...
...start the season.” Entering the year with ambitious aspirations after finishing second in the Ivy League last year, Harvard certainly met early expectations. In the 14 events that the Crimson participated in, 13 of the 14 races ended with Harvard swimmers touching the wall first. “We’ve been working really hard in practice,” junior Natalia Festa said. “I think that we’ve brought a lot of confidence into the meet.” “I would say that we approach every meet...
...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...
...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...