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...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team traveled to Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool this weekend hoping to defeat the Tigers in its own pool for the first time since 1983. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Princeton successfully defended its home turf and defeated the Crimson 190-163 in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The Crimson found some solace in the fact that it overcame the Bulldogs 184-169 to complete its dual meet portion of the season with a 7-2 overall record, 6-2 in the EISL—good enough for second place...
...Begun well before the blaze, his new novel Love Without Hope (Picador; 269 pages) carries the spirit of regeneration that comes after loss. Here the landscape of "hearty little horsewoman" Lorna Shoddy is also transfigured by fire. "A bell of silence clapped itself down over the blackened trees and turf," writes Hall, "her world curling at the edges and noiselessly crepitating, little spits of silence dodging among the ashes." Stripped of her beloved Australian Waler horses, and without the support of family, Mrs. Shoddy is reduced, by all appearances, to madness. At 73 she finds herself straitjacketed in a country...
...should have come as no surprise that the Kurds protested furiously at the U.S. raid on an Iranian facility on their turf. While U.S. officials talk about curbing meddling and say the men arrested were part of Iran's Revolutionary Guard armed forces, Kurdish leaders - including Iraq's foreign minister Hoyshar Zebari - have demanded the release of the arrested Iranians and slammed the U.S. for failing to check with them before launching the operation...
...game is a little different this time. With the iPod, Jobs essentially created a whole new product category. The cell-phone turf is already held by entrenched armies of phonemakers and service providers. They may not be as hip or innovative as Apple, but they will shred one another for nickels, and there are a lot of nickels on the ground. One point of market share in the handset business is worth $1.4 billion. Motorola, having sold more than 50 million Razrs with not enough to show for it, will probably be reverse engineering the iPhone before it hits...
...policeman, so O is sent away from the capital by his long-suffering boss, Chief Inspector Pak, until the heat is off. As in all good mysteries, what looks like a reprieve turns out to be even more trouble. While supposedly lying low, O stumbles across a bloody turf war between two rival intelligence departments over a lawless border town and into the arms of Elena, a Finnish-Chinese femme fatale...