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...college basketball, there can be little rest for the weary, as the Harvard men’s basketball team will soon find out. Three days after a heart-breaking 81-76 double-overtime loss at home to Northeastern, the Crimson return to action tomorrow as it battles another tough non-conference foe in George Washington tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the nation’s capital. Down by seven points in the final minutes of regulation to the Huskies, Harvard stunned the crowd by rallying to force overtime. Several clutch baskets by Northeastern denied the Crimson a thrilling...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Faces Tough Road Tilt | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...withstood the forty-minute slugfest and survived, defeating the Catamounts, 69-67. “I think we came into this game with a lot to prove to ourselves,” senior Katie Rollins said. “We had to prove what we are made of, how tough we are. I think that Vermont was a good test for us. They are a great team, but we were able to bounce back from Tuesday’s night’s loss and play forty minutes of tough basketball.” It seemed that the Crimson...

Author: By Stephanie Krysiak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thrilling Ending Gives Harvard Big Win | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...What They're Bailing Out in Italy: In tough economic times, nations have to set financial priorities: infrastructure, jobs ... dairy products? According to the Wall Street Journal, the Italian government is putting up $65 million to purchase 200,000 wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano and Grana Padano cheese to donate to charity. With hundreds of small cheesemakers in northern Italy losing money, "there was a need for market intervention, just as there was for banks," said Italy's minister of agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...blockmate on a pool table at the Spee. Which is to say there are about a thousand Jay Gatsbys at Harvard. Character: Ignatius J. Reilly—“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole Caricature: Harvard Salient Guy It might be tough to picture the obese, gassy Reilly playing croquet or palling around with Harvard C. Mansfield ’53, but his hilarious anti-modern screeds are stilted and acrimonious enough to fill the Salient’s pages—and maybe even earn him an op-ed column in The Crimson...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Literary Characters and Their Harvard Caricatures | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Daschle was elected to the Senate in 1986, after a tough campaign in which his opponent tried to link him to actress Jane Fonda's anti-war activism and convince cattle-country voters that Daschle advocated vegetarianism. Daschle won with 52% of the vote and, in the Senate, continued to work on issues such as agriculture subsidies, which he favored, and veterans' affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incoming HHS Secretary Tom Daschle | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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