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...Crimson will look to build on this victory as it embarks upon a weeklong intensive training trip in preparation of its final two home meets of the season. Harvard will be back in action on Jan. 22nd as it welcomes Ivy League rival Brown to Blodgett Pool before facing off against cross-town opponent Boston University on Jan. 23rd...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Capitalizes On Winter Break Races | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...plaintiffs’ lawyers called upon Cott, an expert in the history of marriage and a scholar of 20th century gender relations, to the stand on Tuesday. In her testimony, she drew connections between the current restrictions on same-sex marriage and former marriage restrictions, such as the laws that once forbade white women from marrying Chinese men and the infamous miscegenation laws repealed in 1967 that prohibited white women from marrying black...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard History Professor Testifies in Proposition 8 Case | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

After refining his experiments, Ziegler hit upon the first anabolic steroid, known as methandrostenolone and marketed in 1958 by Ciba Pharmaceuticals as Dianabol. But there was already a dark side. Ziegler's test subjects quickly started abusing the drugs and developed such side effects as swollen prostates or shrunken testicles - an outcome that would prompt the doctor to condemn his own creation before his death in 1983. Nonetheless, by the early 1960s pharmaceutical companies had developed nearly a dozen rival steroids, which quickly gained popularity off-label with athletes. In 1976, the International Olympic Committee became the first sports group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steroids | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...Catholic coalition government, admitted that his 60-year-old wife Iris had embarked on an affair with a teenager two years ago. Then came the allegations that she had obtained $80,000 from two property developers to help her lover set up a café and that Peter Robinson, upon learning of the deal, failed to report it. Now that the Evangelical base of Robinson's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has had time to digest the lurid headlines, the political fallout begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Northern Ireland's Sex Scandal Break the Peace? | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Harvard swept the top three spots in six events. Hinkle won the 100-yard backstroke against Penn for the third consecutive year, improving upon her winning time from last year’s meet by over a second. Robinson sprinted to take the 50 free, sophomore Meghan Leddy topped the 200-yard backstroke standings, sophomore Helen Pitchik touched first in the 200-yard breaststroke, and Robinson claimed victory in the 100-yard butterfly for her third victory of the day. Finally, junior Kate Mills set a pool record with her 4:54.33 time in the 500 free...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Swimming Dominates Penn in Return to Action | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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