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When 21-year-old Web entrepreneur Alex Tew received a $50,000 ransom demand last month, he remembers thinking, "There's no way on earth I'm paying these guys." Hackers had kidnapped Tew's Million Dollar Homepage, an advertising website, crippling it with a flood of data. Thousands of dollars, six days and two security teams later, the site was back up. "I can understand why gambling sites that accept thousands of dollars a day could choose to pay and be done with it," Tew says, "but I made a point of standing firm...
...finishes, the Tigers remained in the hunt by consistently grabbing points in the 2-4 spots. In fact, the pivotal race of the meet for the Crimson, the 100- free, was not even won by the home team, but rather by a Bulldog swimmer. Although Yale’s Alex Righi claimed victory in the 100- free, Harvard sophomore Pat Quinn narrowly beat out Princeton’s Will Reinhart to snag the second-place spot and deprive the Tigers of valuable points. Quinn also swam well on the 400-meter relay team that notched first, as well...
...athletes to win their events. The former led a sweep of the top three spots in the weight throw with a toss of 16.00 meters, while the latter won the 3000 meter run with a time of 8:51.34. The other bright spots during the day were sophomore Alex Lewis’ second-place finish in the long jump and classmate Christopher Green’s similar finish in the 800-meter run. The Crimson women swept the top two spots in the pole vault and the 60 meter hurdles, with sophomore Clara Blattler’s clearance...
...cross-country competition is going to be held.” On the men’s side, sophomore Matt Basilico repeated his performance at St. Lawrence as the top alpine male finisher, notching a 35th-place showing with a time of 2:36:26 total, while sophomore Alex Levin and junior Corey Rennell finished right below Basilico, placing 36th and 37th respectively. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Alex just suggested we retroactively include the last two Ivy League games for everybody else to solve the Penn/Princeton problem...