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...Harvard Allston Task Force and representatives from Harvard and the Boston Redevelopment Authority met on Wednesday to discuss issues of construction mitigation and traffic in connection with the University’s planned science complex across the river...
...federal judge ruled at a Wednesday hearing that three Harvard alums have two weeks to amend their complaints alleging that the founder of Facebook.com—the popular social-networking Web site—stole the idea for the site from them...
Facebook spokeswoman Brandee D. Barker said in a statement Wednesday that the company was “pleased with the outcome of the hearing...
Forget the "benchmarks" that Baghdad's politicians are showing little inclination to meet; the best hope in recent memory for national reconciliation in Iraq came Wednesday in the form of a shootout - not your conventional sectarian or insurgent affair, but a series of penalty kicks that settled an Asian cup soccer semifinal in Iraq's favor. Iraq's upset victory over highly rated South Korea has earned it a showdown on Sunday against - boy, do the gods of soccer ever have a wicked sense of humor - Saudi Arabia. The news drew tens of thousands of Iraqis of all stripes...
...Some soccer writers still lament what might have become the greatest European team of the 1990s had Yugoslavia not broken apart. But Yugoslavia did break apart, and Iraq might also, despite the feelings expressed there on Wednesday. Soccer cannot bridge political divides that are based not simply on whether Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds can get along and pass the ball to one another, but on how power and control of territory and resources is to be arranged among them. As beautiful a moment as Iraq's shared celebration may have been, the danger remains that they're less akin...