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...Crimson, winning its ninth Ancient Eight title solidified its place as the premier team in the Ivy League, despite a rough pre-season where Harvard only won one game out of eight...
...value as a newspaper of a civilized country." Just when tensions looked set to dissipate, Hun Sen announced on Nov. 4 that he was appointing a certain Thai as his economic advisor. Thaksin's conviction by a Thai court, opined Cambodian state T.V., was "politically motivated." The former Premier responded by announcing that he would be delighted to accept the position in order to keep "my brain sharp" - although he cautioned that the honorary position wouldn't be as fun as "working to help Thai people out of poverty...
...nearly three decades since, those expectations have been unfulfilled. In the summer of 2001, Honduras was invited at the last minute to participate in the Copa America, South America’s premier tournament. Arriving just a few hours before their first game, the team went on to upset defending champion Brazil...
Both sides will probably try to cool things down at the coming summit of Southeast Asian nations in Bangkok. Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao are expected to meet on the margins of the meeting, although one conversation is unlikely to sort out their complicated history. Both countries are still absorbed in a game played in miniature: recently, for example, a Kashmiri student was given a Chinese visa that was stapled rather than pasted into his passport, an implicit questioning of Kashmir's status as a state of India. Indian authorities, Guruswamy says, then quietly suggested they might...
Nabel, who Moriarty said emphasized patient care during her term at NIH, has also worked personally with local residents in Washington, D.C. This experience, he said, has prepared her to lead a premier research institution that also serves as a community hospital for the Jamaica Plain, Dorchester, and Roxbury neighborhods...