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...effort capped off a late-half rally. Cornell hadn’t made any spectacular offensive plays, but the Crimson couldn’t seem to find the basket against its high pressure defense. For much of the first 10 minutes, Harvard seemed out of rhythm as it endured a scoreless streak of more than six minutes, allowing the Big Red to pick up an eight-point lead...
...excitement over those advances, however, has been tempered by the still raw memories of a humbling retreat in 2007, after a highly anticipated shot against the virus was deemed a failure. While nobody expected spectacular results, neither did anyone expect such a stunning defeat, and the scientific community is still struggling to recover from it. "We are still a long ways away from having an effective HIV vaccine that physicians can reach into the cabinet and pull out in a vial and inject into a person," says Dr. Bruce Walker, an HIV expert at Harvard Medical School...
Indeed, the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas is not the only prize catching Moscow's eye. Last year Italy agreed to cede ownership of a similarly spectacular cathedral in Bari to the Russian Orthodox Church, and the year before that, Paris did the same with a cathedral there. And last October, Israel agreed to turn over a building in Jerusalem known as "Sergei's Courtyard" that was constructed in 1890 to accommodate Russian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Moscow is also currently in a legal battle over control of London's St. Andrews Cathedral, home to a large Orthodox congregation...
...night), Cinco Portas Pensão (from $100) and Ibo Island Lodge (from $350 a night per couple). All are beautiful converted houses, but the lodge has huge rooms, Goan four-posters, the best pool and best sunset view, and its rates include air transfers from the mainland, three spectacular meals a day and use of a dhow to sail to a nearby sandbank for snorkeling and lobster lunch under a sunshade on the beach. See cincoportas.com and iboisland.com for more...
There are a few exceptions, most notably the spectacular Robert Walsh in his portrayal of Nick Bottom. Walsh is a breath of fresh air, and his presence on stage adds a kind of vitality to the show that other scenes fundamentally lack. His Bottom is a likable blue-collar guy, charmingly obnoxious and sometimes brash, but all the more endearing for his flaws...