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PHILADELPHIA—Five times this season Harvard football has had its back to the wall, and four times the Crimson’s miracle train has kept on chugging.Other than the week two loss at Brown, Harvard has managed to come up with big play after big play to secure unbelievably close victories.Saturday’s win was no different.The game-sealing interception with less than 15 seconds left saved Harvard from many things, not the least of which was losing an Ivy League title shot next weekend against Yale—a sort of redemption after...
Ride the Rails. VIA Rail Canada is determined to tempt you aboard its long-haul train with 50% rebates if you book your tickets online before Dec. 11. If you have the free time, the "Canadian" route, for instance, departs Toronto, passes through the prairies and the Rockies and ends at Canada's Pacific coast five days later. VIA Rail promises down duvets in your sleeper, local wines to sip in the observation car, regional menus in the dining car and attentive staff...
...comically knee-jerk explanation for terror attacks - they have been blamed on Islamist fundamentalists aided by "foreign elements," meaning mostly Pakistan and China. Even where the majority of victims have been Muslims - such as the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, the attack on an Indo-Pak train in February 2007 and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhi's Jama Masjid - the first murmurs of suspicion have named Islamist groups. Investigation trails in these cases have led nowhere, yet no one has dared ask if non-Muslims, or more specifically, Hindu fundamentalists, could be responsible...
Once you have overcome being a fancy boy and you’ve decided to board the train to Blackoutville, you’re going to need alcohol. When DAPA says you can have fun without alcohol, remember these are the same idiots who bought countless cans and bottles of “pizza” last year in exchange for forged Pinocchio’s receipts. Believe us: no matter how many kids are snorkeling in Mongolia, you still are neither funny nor interesting enough to draw people to your party without the prospect of a drunken hook...
...Waiting for this to happen has been like watching a slow-motion train wreck," says Ken Conboy, author of The Second Front: Inside Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network. "They should have limited their exposure...