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Adams House—once more known for its artists than for its athletics—ended a 67-year-long drought Wednesday by winning the Straus Cup, the intramural (IM) athletics championship award, for the first time in the Cup’s history...
ZIMBABWE Disastrous State The government declared a state of disaster to deal with critical food shortages, authorizing emergency measures to assist food distribution. The proclamation blamed the "prevalent drought," but relief officials said that agricultural disruption caused by government-sanctioned farm invasions had worsened the problem. The country was once a net grain exporter, but now more than half the population of 13 million urgently needs food...
SOUTHERN AFRICA Food Emergency The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) warned that more than 5 million people faced starvation as the effects of a regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...
...Crimson ended its Ivy drought with a victory over Columbia on Saturday. The Lions dropped to 0-35 in their five-year history in the Ivy League...
...north, Krinsky was at a loss (much as one would be after being prompted to give a twelve-word solution to the problem of world hunger). After a thoughtful pause, Krinsky seemed poised to share with me the elusive answer to Harvard’s 366-year sexual drought. “Umm...we’re all in this together,” is the best she can offer. We’re doomed...