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...first time since last November.It’s something of a full-circle occasion for quarterback Chris Pizzotti, the top-rated passer in the Ivy League. Last year, the Pizzotti-led Crimson spotted Princeton an early 17-7 lead. Liam O’Hagan came on in relief, and Pizzotti held the proverbial clipboard for the final three quarters of an eventual, bitter 31-28 defeat. Now, it’s Pizzotti’s game alone to win or lose, as the suddenly high-flying Tigers, who are averaging close to 500 yards per game in their last...
...matters not just in business. Rock icon Bono gets high marks for his woomanship in promoting social causes. A surprisingly genial visit in 2000 to the archconservative Senator Jesse Helms, during which Bono communed with the septuagenarian politician, yielded an appropriation of $435million for debt relief for Africa. It wouldn't have happened, say the authors, had it not been for Bono's on-the-spot ability to switch "to a completely different language," abandoning his fact-laden pitch to talk religion with Helms...
Women with breast cancer have typically sought Chinese medical herbalists for relief from the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation or to strengthen and balance their immune systems; some have even hoped for a cure. Some women may have been helped; others not. But with so many variables - the broad range of patients, quality and potency of the herbs available, types of formulations prescribed and the expertise of the herbalist - outcomes in informal settings were never a sure thing. And it's the same kind of variability that has made clinical research so problematic. "Even though people are very interested...
...receiver was wearing crimson, not white. Williams jumped on the short throw, and not only did he make the catch, quelling the threat, but he was off to the races. Williams ran it back 91 yards for the score that allowed the Harvard fans to breathe a sigh of relief. “That play is the epitome of what we work on as a defense and that is everybody following the ball,” Williams said. “Glenn Dorris had the pressure, which unfortunately turned out wasn’t a sack for him. It just...
...Human rights came in for the toughest criticism. Despite a 2005 pledge to "provide relief" for its political prisoners, Beijing continued to detain and imprison democracy activists as well as those attempting to organize workers in labor unions not approved by the government. Police routinely detain people for days without formal charge or more justification than to avoid protests or "social unrest," it said...