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...roots are in Persia and Arabia, the stories of Amir Hamza blossomed most fully on the Indian subcontinent - a crossroads of religions, languages and narrative styles. "When it entered India, the sky was clearly the limit," says Muhammad Memon, professor of literature and Islamic studies at the University of Wisconsin. The richness of India's modes of cultural expression - particularly its blending of Sufi Islam and the mythological repertoire of the older strains of Hinduism - prompted opulent embellishments of the epic, deepening its playful world of myriad magical creatures and warlords riding rhinoceroses...
...Harvard goes into this season with a chip on its collective shoulder following its memorable quadruple-overtime loss in the NCAA Tournament to Wisconsin, the No. 1 ranked team in the country and eventual national champion...
...Harvard to a 21-6-2 record. But playoff time meant decision time, and Stone awarded Martin the starting job for the team’s run in the postseason. Martin turned in a career-best performance, posting a stunning 67 saves in a quadruple-overtime loss to Wisconsin. “I think she played out of her mind in the Wisconsin game,” Stone says. “If you could duplicate that every day, you would have lightning in a ball.”But Stone also cites the old sports adage that an athlete...
...Hockey Center in a game that Crimson head coach Katey Stone called “ugly.” The win ushered in a fresh start for the Harvard skaters, who are trying to rid themselves of the bitter taste left over from their crushing four-overtime loss to Wisconsin in the first round of last season’s NCAA Tournament. Hampered by penalties and sluggish play for much of the first two periods, Harvard found itself in a 2-1 hole late into the second. But with less than two minutes left in the frame, freshman Liza Ryabkina...
...basic farm policies, which means it will keep funneling money to farmers and pseudo farmers through a bewildering array of loans, price supports, subsidized insurance, disaster aid and money-for-nothing handouts that arrive when times are tough--or not tough. "What a joke," grumbles Congressman Ron Kind, a Wisconsin Democrat who led a failed bipartisan reform effort in the House. "You're eligible as long as you're breathing." Actually, that's not quite true. Since the vast majority of the cash goes to five row crops--corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and rice--more than 60% of our farmers...