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...junior is out of action indefinitely with a tear in her patella tendon. It’s the first time Ogbechie has had a serious injury that has kept her out of competition since she started playing volleyball in the eighth grade...
Like the mosques, Saudi schools have been the subject of scrutiny. Saudi textbooks have been laced with passages that not only extol the supremacy of Islam but also denigrate nonbelievers. An eighth-grade book states that Allah cursed Jews and Christians and turned some of them into apes and pigs. Ninth-graders learn that Judgment Day will not come "until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them." A chapter for a 10th-grade class warns Muslims against befriending non-Muslims, saying, "It is compulsory for the Muslims to be loyal to each other and to consider the infidels their...
...men’s 7,945-meter race, the Crimson was led by junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who missed last season but made an impressive return with an eighth-place finish in a time of 24:48. Junior captain Reed Bienvenu narrowly missed a top-ten finish, taking 14th...
...another as they work to form a fusion of old and new that will hopefully produce an offensive attack comparable to that of 2002. Last year’s squad—directed by former offensive coordinator Jay Mills, now the head coach at Charleston Southern—was eighth in Division I-AA offense, racking up an average of 426.7 yards per game...
...allowed people to recognize in their prosaic settings a world they seldom see. The Queensboro Bridge did not actually change during the blackout, but I can promise you that it looks a lot different when you are crossing it on foot, along with thousands of other people. Along Fifty-Eighth Street, restaurant workers sat outside their eateries on chairs better suited for office work or dinner than for outdoor lounging. Firefighters sat outside their stations, doormen outside their buildings and parking garage attendants outside their booths. One driver rested his head on the steering wheel of his car, trapped...