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...goalkeeper Austin Harms—who tallied his first start and first shutout of the season in the contest. Harvard has taken its first step towards an Ivy League crown, but with over a month of hard matchups left in the regular season, the Crimson is looking to improve upon its weaknesses. “[We need] to be a little more consistent,” Nyamekye said. “We have lots of peaks and slumps, and if we could play at our best levels consistently, that would definitely make games [easier].” Harvard will...
...Recently, the Iranian regime has turned the full force of its tyrannical gaze upon the Iranian women’s movement. Ahmadinejad has insisted that women have it better in Iran than anywhere else in the world, but ever the reformer, he tried to make it even better in recent months by attempting to revoke the veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small...
...best goalies in the program’s history. “It’s become a lot easier to be more vocal, to be a leader as a senior,” Robinson said. “It comes naturally.”Once upon a time they were merely freshmen, the only four freshmen to start and play all 16 games of the 2005 season.Back then the foursome was coached by Stephanie Erickson. A year later, Erica Walsh took the helm, and in 2007 Ray Leone, the current coach, joined the squad.All the while Rhodes, Wylie...
Most troubling of all, however, were the statements from doctors included in the criminal complaint filed by prosecutors earlier this week. "Upon the statement of Dr. Angela Bier at Children's Hospital that [the boy Jesse] suffers severely from failure to thrive, is considered short and underweight for his age, is diagnosed with osteopenia (lack of density in the bones), which is likely rickets caused by a dietary deficiency, and fractures to the right tibia and fibula, and a fracture to the left ulna." Another doctor explained that the fractures appear old and had never been treated...
When men disagree, the steps to resolution are reasonably clear and unsophisticated. Acts of physical violence are visited upon one another's person or property, and the whole thing blows over. Women? Nu-unh. We savor the discord. We draw it out. We share our contempt with our friends, like a useful stock tip, or really good salsa. And then we all go hate together: a mutually encouraging group activity for when the book group gets quiet...