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...league that has been carried thus far by young talent rather than veteran experience, Harvard’s leaders emphasize that Crimson can’t afford to take any game for granted...
...made his exit from the arena, looking very much the big man on campus despite being 130 miles from New Haven. “I wouldn’t say that there’s too much of a home-court advantage here [at Harvard],” said veteran Yale point guard Eric Flato, who played the entire 40 minutes of the contest. “Our students [at Yale] are right on the floor, and we usually get a pretty big turnout at the Harvard game.” The Crimson opened the game strong and surged...
...onetime reputed chief of staff won't have the police to bad-mouth any more. Long suspected of directing bombings across Ireland and Britain while also operating as one of the main spokesmen for Sinn Fein, the group's political wing, McGuinness, 56, used his veteran's status over the weekend to propose that a special Sinn Fein convention support Northern Ireland's police force for the first time in the party's - or Ireland's - history...
Kennedy credits his team of veteran educators, young teachers, Teach for America recruits and a parent coordinator. "No one can work in isolation," he says. "My job is to get voices from the community and to keep the team motivated. I see our work like a chessboard. Each child is our king. We have to work to protect him and checkmate the forces of failure. This world is so harsh to children. I see myself as the keeper of the dream that is in every child, and I know we can succeed. That is my blessed hope...
...killing spree had only begun. After belting down three vodkas, Delgado, a Colombian electronics engineer and a Viet Nam veteran, opened fire again, indiscriminately spraying the restaurant and its patrons with gunfire before police finally arrived and shot him dead. At week's end, the motive behind the massacre remained unclear. The final toll: 27 dead and ten wounded...