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...After a dominant 18-point performance off the bench in a loss to Boston College, Harris was promoted to the starting lineup in Wednesday’s contest at SMU. With the switch, the Crimson starting five featured two freshmen—Harris and point guard Drew Housman—for the first time since both newcomers were five years...
...matter who you play, if they shoot 53 percent, we’re not going to hang around.” The Crimson will take the next week and a half to prepare for the Ivy schedule, which begins with a home contest against Dartmouth on Jan. 7. —Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...Dancing With the Stars (ABC). There are incidents that cause a man to look about him and says, "I do not know the country I am living in anymore." For some, it takes an election, or an assassination, or a disturbing social change. For me, it was a dance contest, with chintzy production values and worse dancing, which inexplicably became the number one show of the summer and -- explicably but unfortunately -- returns next month...
Ayman Nour earned a place in Egyptian history in September by emerging as the strongest challenger to incumbent Hosni Mubarak in the country?s first-ever presidential contest. The 42-year-old lawyer?s populist performance made him a future star of Egyptian politics, the leader of a potentially influential liberal bloc in parliament and a serious contender to succeed Mubarak in the next election in 2011. To U.S. officials pushing democracy in the Middle East as well as to many Egyptians demanding change, Nour and his Al Ghad (Tomorrow) party offered a promising liberal, secular alternative to authoritarian Arab...
...given unprecedented leeway by the regime to field its candidates. It captured nearly 20 percent of the seats, a sixfold improvement on its previous best showing, making the fundamentalists the largest opposition force in parliament. Egypt?s future has thus become a polarizing struggle between Mubarak and Islam, a contest that liberals, with Nour in jail rather than in parliament, have little hope of winning...