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...Harvard men’s tennis team lost, 4-3, to a talented 67th-ranked Fresno State squad Thursday evening. Playing under the lights at the Wathen Tennis Center, the Crimson could not contain the Bulldogs’ surge during singles play, as a 2-0 Harvard lead turned into a 4-2 cushion for the home team. “It was tough to lose,” said Crimson coach Dave Fish ’72, “but I felt that to come out of there with a win last night would have been almost heroic...
...Arab League summit that concluded in Riyadh Thursday reaffirmed the body's peace offer to Israel, but it hardly suggested the sort of "bold outreach" to the Jewish State for which U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been lobbying. Indeed, the summit appeared to reveal a yawning gap between the outlooks of the U.S. and its key Arab ally, summit host Saudi Arabia...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been selected to address seniors in June as the Class Day speaker at this year’s Commencement exercises, the Senior Class Committee announced Thursday...
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' future hangs in the balance as his recently-resigned Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson sits down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at 10 a.m. Thursday morning in the Hart Office Building. Sampson is the man at the center of the U.S. attorney scandal, the one person who, more than any other, can answer why the eight prosecutors were fired, whether there was any improper political influence from the White House over the process, and just how involved Gonzales was in the whole affair. Gonzales has claimed only passing knowledge of the firings; a slip...
...Leahy and Schumer held a briefing for reporters Wednesday afternoon after reviewing Sampson's testimony and said there were no smoking guns expected Thursday. But they will press Sampson on inconsistencies between Gonzales's assertions of ignorance and documents produced by the Justice Department that show the Attorney General approved the firings and was involved in at least some of the deliberations...