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...coordinate and cheer on an uprising that embarrassed the rulers of the People's Republic as China just as the country was preparing for its Olympics. A year later, however, the Chinese authorities have moved with dispatch to prevent any recurrence. In the run-up to Mar. 10, the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet after a failed uprising, Beijing has cut off communication between Tibet-as well as areas with large ethnic Tibetan communities-and the rest of the world. (See pictures of last year's uprising in Tibet...
...strong of a showing as their female counterparts over the weekend, but there were still some bright spots for Harvard. McCahill placed 43rd in the men’s 10K Classic event and 46th in the men’s 20K Freestyle contest, while junior Trevor Petach placed 50th and 51st in the two races, respectively.“I was able to put together two fairly solid runs out there in some tricky conditions,” McCahill said.The men’s alpine team was led by junior captain Chris Kinner’s 27th place effort...
...captain in the alpine scoring columns. Freshman Kevin McNamara improved eight places from his 51st starting position to finish 43rd in the Giant Slalom event. Sophomore Brad Alvarez joined Kinner and McNamara in the Giant Slalom scoring, improving 22 places on his starting position of 72nd to place 50th overall in the race...
...there and catch a good quality fish. It's going to come down to who gets that lucky big bite. You're going to need one or two fish that'll be bigger than the rest to really shoot ahead in the competition. I'm not fishing for 50th place. I'm fishing...
...Tibetans celebrate, that would not be good at all." Even if this period passes quietly, the year ahead contains many more potentially explosive anniversaries for Tibetans. April will mark the 20th anniversary of the bloody 1989 suppression of anti-Chinese protests in Lhasa. Even more sensitive will be the 50th anniversary, in mid-March, of the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in India after the so-called Lhasa uprising was suppressed by the People's Liberation Army...