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...Today just wasn’t their day.” In the saber, senior Alexa Weingarden outfenced the pack, going 9-0 and finishing tied for first with Columbia saberist Emily Jacobson, who fenced for the US Olympic team in the senior circuit. Next weekend Harvard faces the toughest half of its Ancient Eight competition, with last year’s men’s and women’s champions in the form of the Lions on deck. “Essentially what we have to do next week to have any hope of at least sharing...
...Samak's toughest challenge, however, may be dealing with the military. With his election, Thailand has peacefully returned to civilian rule for the first time since 2006 and, more or less, to a situation of normalcy - due largely to the coup leaders' willingness to stand by their word not to interfere in December's elections. Should Samak seek revenge against those involved in the coup, or put officers loyal to Thaksin in charge of the military, he could sow the seeds of another takeover. As Panitan says, "Coups never happen for a single reason." Reports in the Thai press have...
...season at Blodgett Pool against Brown on Jan. 26. It will be the first and only home dual meet for Harvard this season and the last home meet for the Crimson’s seniors.The Crimson will then face Yale and Princeton, traditionally the team’s toughest league competition, in a tri-meet over the first weekend in February as its final tuneup before the Ivy championships.“[The Penn meet] sets the tone. We’ll work on the little things until the championships,” Pangilinan said. “We?...
...Indians, in turn, accuse the Australians of double standards. In the rough-and-tumble world of international cricket, Australia has long been known as one of the toughest teams. Though they have tried to lose their bully boy tags over the past few years, Australian players still regularly "sledge" - or verbally niggle - their opponents. One former Australian captain called the practice "mental disintegration" and argued that it should be seen as an important part of the game. The Indian team - and players from other subcontinental teams such as Pakistan - complain that it's a bit rich for Australia to start...
...million followers today, 76 percent of whom live in the Indian state of Punjab. Although they make up only 2% of the wider Indian population, they are a close-knit and prosperous community with a strong cultural affiliation. But the battle to preserve the turban may well be the toughest facing the Sikhs since they were first rallied as a martial nation by their tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, in 1699, to fight the oppressive Mughal rulers of India. A rehatnama, or book of ordinances, dating back to this period enjoins Sikh men to wear their hair long and sport...