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...February 2005 of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a Sunni, intra-Muslim antagonism began to harden. Sunnis blamed Hizballah's patron, the Syrian government, for the killing. While faulting Hizballah for provoking last summer's war, many Lebanese Sunnis stood with Hizballah in the face of Israel's onslaught against the country. But any residual Sunni admiration for Hizballah vanished by the end of the year, when Hizballah led a campaign to bring down the government of Hariri's longtime friend Fouad Siniora...
Harvard officials defended their plans for the campus expansion into Allston at a meeting last night, facing an onslaught of complaints from residents—ranging from what to do with a local Dunkin’ Donuts to how to sort out residential concerns about privacy and traffic during construction. The meeting’s discussions, which took place at St. Anthony’s School in Allston, centered on the University’s plan to erect an art museum at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue—known to residents as Barry?...
Last year MLG focused on four-vs.-four team matches for the game Halo 2. Rob Dustin, an executive producer at MLG, says the main challenge was whittling down the onslaught of information for the lay viewer. Next season Dustin hopes to find a Cinderella team and build its programming around it. He needs more stars. "The uniqueness of the MLG is that you can start as just four guys from Poughkeepsie and end as a top-five team," says Dustin. "You can't do that in other sports...
...their clashes with the Harvard-Dartmouth-St. Lawrence triumvirate. When the travel partners visited Bright Hockey Center on the season’s opening weekend in October, Harvard completely dominated, creaming RPI, 11-0, and dispatching Union in a 10-0 final. Sophomore winger Sarah Vaillancourt led the onslaught, notching eight points on three goals and five assists against the Engineers and pouring in four more goals against the Dutchwomen. The matchups should again be useful for stat-padding, as several of the Crimson’s stars can solidify their places among the nation’s numerical leaders...
...left to play, got three saves, and improved her record to 5-2-1 on the season. “We needed a change in momentum a little bit,” Stone said. “We got a little bit of a break from the Clarkson onslaught. That’s the beauty of having two great goaltenders.”ST. LAWRENCE 2, HARVARD 1 After the 2-1 loss to the Saints on Friday night, Stone described her discussion with the team and then a separate meeting with the coaches as “re-inventing...