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...League except for classmate Emily Henderson, who ran her way to 28 stolen bases. Henderson was named to the All-Ivy First Team. Harvard was also the League’s top defensive team. Its collective 49 errors were the fewest of any team in the Ancient Eight. And while one of the Crimson’s fielders, first baseman Danielle Kerper, is graduating, the rest of the Ivy League’s best defense will be back next season. Also donning a cap and gown today are two of Harvard’s pitchers, captain Shelly Madick and Amanda...
...Harvard women’s tennis program isn’t used to failure. Since 1983, the Crimson has won 17 Ivy League championships and has never encountered back-to-back losing seasons. In 2008, however, Harvard had its second consecutive losing campaign in the Ancient Eight and went winless in its non-conference schedule. Although the Crimson did not have the type of final standing it had hoped for, the team became more competitive at the end of the year. The squad’s Ivy League record could have easily been 5-2 instead of 2-5 since...
Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman's Culture and Belief 17: "Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games"—adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome...
...Government security officials and independent observers say the Naxalites have begun to reorganize along more formal military lines. The rebels still use bows and arrows, knives and ancient rifles, but have begun to stock up on machine guns, land mines and mortars, and are building increasingly sophisticated roadside bombs. Based on documents seized in the past year, Indian intelligence agencies estimate that Naxalite Inc. now has an annual budget of $250 million, much of which comes from extorting road contractors and mining companies, and from taxing hundreds of thousands of poor villagers. That money, analysts say, is funding the Maoists...
Years later, Ayers threw a fund-raising party for Obama. They sat together on the board of a community group. Is this association between Obama and these dangerous radicals a scandal? Or is the scandal digging up all this ancient history? Those have been the options in the debate. But the truth is a third option: Ayers and Dohrn are despicable, and yet making an issue of Obama's relationship with them is absurd...