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...Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved just another chapter in Harvard’s depressing history in this small New Jersey town. This time, however, one huge twist in the story made the loss all the more agonizing.Housman, showcasing the very zenith of his speed, versatility, and scoring ability, seemed to take the Crimson on his shoulders, scoring 12 of the team’s final 14 points in regulation. And his play was accentuated by his biggest shot: down three with a minute to play, Housman dribbled up the floor, stopped...
...Princeton’s Jadwin Gym since 1989. Friday night proved just another chapter in Harvard’s depressing history in this small New Jersey town. This time, however, one huge twist in the story made the loss all the more agonizing. Housman, showcasing the very zenith of his speed, versatility, and scoring ability, seemed to take the Crimson on his shoulders, scoring 12 of the team’s final 14 points in regulation. Calling for the ball, he willed the team into the first overtime and then fought to reach a second, scoring all four of Harvard?...
...Osama Bin Laden, it is easy to forget how a small group of young, middle-class Germans calling themselves the Red Army Faction (RAF) held postwar West Germany in its murderous thrall for more than two decades. In the late 1970s, at the zenith of the RAF's influence, the captains of Germany's Wirtschaftswunder traveled with armed bodyguards and avoided commercial airlines for fear of being blown out of the sky; police set aside civil liberties in a hunt for suspects that engendered something close to national hysteria. The RAF targeted and killed bankers, business titans, jurists, bureaucrats...
Thierry Nataf, CEO and creative director of Zenith, the Swiss-based watchmaker, likes to model his most daring pieces after his own Bond-like lifestyle. This season he debuts the Defy collection, which looks vaguely like an accessory you absolutely cannot wear unless you fly your own jet and race cars. The collection, which includes the titanium-and-steel Xtreme Open, below, and the smaller Elite series, is an outsized group of graphic, chunky precision timepieces that appeal to the sportif type with an athletic build. From the decorative screw heads to the rotating bezel to the stainless-steel bracelet...
...long time ago in Lebanon, when bloodshed was at its zenith, a much revered Lebanese poet wrote these words decrying political assassinations...