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...men’s basketball team cancels a planned winter trip against Southern schools where African-Americans are banned from playing because of segregation laws or customs. Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles announces that Harvard’s teams would no longer participate in athletic contests that discriminate against players...
...Calais, Khodadadi's tale is still not rare. Hundreds of illegal immigrants stay here for weeks or even months, sleeping outdoors through summer rainstorms and winter cold, until they succeed or give up and head elsewhere. Khodadadi's shelter is one of dozens hidden amid the dunes strewn with cigarette boxes, old shoes, stale food and human waste. Others camp in the city, cooking on open fires and bedding down under bridges. In a report last November, the French aid organization Médecins du Monde said illnesses in Calais were widespread and sanitation extremely poor. Yet like Khodadadi, many...
...dead, April and May combined for the bloodiest two-month stretch for U.S. forces since the war began. The spike in casualties is the result of the troop "surge," chiefly into hostile parts of Baghdad, a move opposed by a number of senior generals before it was announced last winter. Now President George W. Bush is under mounting pressure from members of his party to prove the effectiveness of the surge by summer's end or risk having his allies turn on the policy. The fear, G.O.P. officials privately admit, is that the party could face an even greater wipeout...
After an impressive showing at the CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament in Panama this past winter, freshman Andre Akpan has been named to the roster of an upcoming U-20 training camp in Canada. The camp, which takes place in three of the six sites that will be used for the World Cup this summer, will not only help head coach Thomas Rongen decide which players from the U-20 Team pool will represent the United States at the World Cup, but will also give the team a chance to play on the fields that will be used during the tournament. Akpan...
...jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who came to international prominence with The Isle (or, as aficionados describe it, the erotic fish-hook movie) and has ben paring down his style ever since, in Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring Again and the near-wordless 3-Iron. His new film is more conventional, not so rewarding. Yeon (the actress Zia) switches her affection from her faithless husband to a condemned killer (Taiwanese star Chang Chen) who keeps trying to commit suicide. Both, the movie says, are doomed...