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With the Ivy League Championships coming up this weekend, Harvard looked to fine-tune its game in preparation for the biggest tournament of the year...
...Crimson got more than it bargained for in this tune-up. Stow Acres is a true test of golf even in the most pleasant of conditions, featuring such obstacles as a 6,939 yard par-72 bear with three par-5s over 500 yards and six par-4s measuring more than 400 yards, including a Tiger-esque 478-yard ninth. Making a tall task even taller, yesterday’s golfers were battered by bitterly cold temperatures, blustering winds and intermittent rain all round long...
...Harvard (16-8, 6-0 Ivy) won its ninth straight match with a 6-1 defeat of the Bulldogs (7-11, 2-4 Ivy) at Yale. It was the Crimson’s final tune-up before it hosts the No. 42 Brown Bears—the only other team with a perfect record in the Ivy League—in the biggest match of the season thus...
...charge of the Pentagon have clashed bitterly with the State Department over plans for a post-Saddam Iraq. The Pentagon civilians have pushed hard for the U.S. to hand over power to a provisional government headed up by their favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmed Chalabi, whom they emphasize is in tune with the President's wider Mideast agenda. A U.S. official traveling with Chalabi in Iraq last week told TIME that the INC leader was "the only one" who could create a viable secular democratic government in Iraq...
...meantime, clinicians are working feverishly to fine-tune existing antiviral drugs and treatments in order to render SARS less deadly. At present, about one in every 20 SARS victims dies, usually due to swelling in the lungs, a result of the body's own immune-system response. In Hong Kong, doctors claim they are successfully combating the disease using the antiviral drug ribavirin to inhibit the virus combined with corticosteroids to check an overstimulated immune response. Ribavirin works by interfering with intracellular viral replication, slowing the infection's spread within the body. The problem, as microbiologist Professor John...