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...look pass from junior guard Emily Tay at the three-point line found Hallion alone under the basket. Hallion’s easy lay-in tied the game at 40 with just under eight minutes to play. Cornell responded at every turn, but was without its go-to-weapon down the stretch. As the crowds filtered into Lavietes, game time brought a welcome surprise for the Crimson faithful—the Big Red’s leading scorer, junior forward Jeomi Maduka, had remained in Ithaca to compete in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in track and field in lieu...
...last few years the Northeast Regionals have been good to the Harvard fencing squad, with champions coming in various weapons. This year was no different, with the top performances coming in the epee, as sophomore Billy Stallings took home the gold in men’s epee at the event held at Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Men’s epee continued to be a high point for the squad, as senior Teddy Sherrill took bronze in the meet, and sophomore Karl Harmenberg finished eighth out of 34. The Crimson was the only squad to notch three top-10 epee...
Paul Alan Levy, an attorney for Public Citizen, called Friday's ruling a "great victory for the First Amendment." But it also highlights a fact that might unsettle others in his line of work: wielded deftly, technology is a weapon powerful enough to beat...
Making bows and arrows has become a communal task. Although women and girls do not fight, they assist in collecting materials for the weapons. Five bow-and-arrow construction groups of 10 members each are scattered around the town. Weapon-makers first cut the head off a 4-inch nail, which is then chiseled with a heavy hammer into a sharp edge. The nail is then coiled to fit onto a bamboo stick. A groove is cut into the bottom of the stick in order to add paraffin paper wings for the arrow to have better flight. Sometimes, the arrow...
Shooters say the advantage of arrows is that people often do not see the weapon coming, leaving victims vulnerable. "Before this conflict, arrows were not used for these kind of recent attacks. They were mainly used for activities such as hunting," says former Rift Valley police commander Everett Wasige. "This is obviously something very wrong and very...