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...Long Island on December 10, it improved to 6-3 on the season. By contrast, at that time, the Big Green had lost its first six games of the season. Since then, Harvard has had some good games, but closed the non-conference season with three straight losses. It was blown out at home by Sacred Heart 95-75, fell to Big East school Providence 101-92, and in its most recent outing, suffered its worst loss of the season, falling 81-48 to UC Irvine. It ended the non-conference season 7-7. “We are pleased...
...batsmen into a false shot. In the 1970s and '80s, when I was a kid growing up in Australia, my friends and I idolized the quickies, most of them from the unbeatable West Indian team that dominated the era. Tall, toned, with a swagger and menacing smirk that spoke straight to a 13-year-old boy, the finest fast bowlers were as cool as we could ever hope...
...about some lunch," said McClung, popping her brown eyes wide open as she flashed me a big smile. It was an obvious effort to cheer me up, and I gratefully accepted. McClung put a cap over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah...
...people leave every month?" I said, pointing to statistics from a recent U.N. report. "Well then what are all these people doing here?" she said with a laugh. "Iraq has about 27 million people in it. Give it some time, and it will empty out," I said, keeping a straight face. "I live in Baghdad, outside the Green Zone, and it's not a happy place." Her smile vanished. "No," she said. "Not a happy place...
...were trying their best to blend in to the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were just poor peasants in new clothes: They were given away by their callused hands, dirt under their fingernails and the identical creases on their straight-out-of-the-box shirts - the quiet-spoken apple grower named Liang Yumin still had a piece of cardboard tucked under his collar...