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Even with second semester in full swing, students who leave campus early to study abroad may have to contend with more than just culture shock. Of the 91 students who are spending their spring semester abroad, some are forced to take their finals in absentia...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Exams In Absentia Hassles Students Abroad | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

...pursue his dream of playing in the NFL, Fitzpatrick is willing to accommodate any amount of paperwork and preparation necessary. For the past couple months, that has meant juggling essays with absentia forms and planning his schedule out to the letter...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tackling Football and Finals | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

...involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-born al-Nashiri, considered an associate of Osama bin Laden's and the mastermind of the Cole attack, has been in CIA custody outside the U.S. since 2002 and was tried by the Yemenis in absentia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 11, 2004 | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-born al-Nashiri, considered an associate of Osama bin Laden's and the mastermind of the Cole attack, has been in CIA custody outside the U.S. since 2002, and was tried by the Yemenis in absentia. Four others received prison terms for their roles in the bombing. DIED. JOHN E. MACK, 74, controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist; after being hit by a drunk driver; in London. Mack, a Harvard Medical School professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

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