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...ridiculed the odd couple for their supremely unmanly choice of movie ... Four days later, having exhausted his own entertainment supply, [Noriel] surreptitiously made his way into an unoccupied squad room, snagged The Notebook, and brought it back to a packed NCO room. Half an hour later, I found him, along with Leeza and Bowen, watching the movie with tears running down their faces...
...Federation of German Banks, which represents the main private-sector banks, has proposed something along these lines already. Rather than calling it a bad bank the banks call it a "mobilization fund." Each bank would park its toxic assets in an account with the government. This way the assets would be off the banks' books but each security would still be associated with its original owner rather than pooled together. "The mobilization fund is not about burdening the taxpayer with all the risks," Klaus-Peter Müller, head of the banking federation, told reporters...
...Strictly monitoring Housing Night does not seem the best allocation of resources. The tradition of the Quad boats is young, but this does not discount its importance to the student body. All traditions are fresh and new at some point; for all its history, Harvard should embrace new traditions along with the old. Random housing is itself a recent innovation, so it stands to reason that traditions related to the moment of random selection are young. The Quad boat tradition’s popularity helps encourage a sense of community among freshmen and the greater undergraduate community. The university, with...
...also a Crimson Sports Editor, junior Margaux Black was able to score off of junior outfielder Jen Francis’ double later in the frame. “Jen Francis had the biggest hits of the day in the second game,” Bock said. Henderson scored again, along with junior outfielder Stephanie Krysiak, who is also a Crimson Sports Editor, to put Harvard up 5-1 in the final inning. But in the bottom of the seventh, Penn threatened to derail the Crimson’s lead. With two outs, the Quakers had the bases loaded, but Vertovez...
...used occasionally by Hamas but never before on such a large scale, sources said. "This was the first time that the Iranians had tried to send Hamas a shipment this big via Sudan - and it is probably the last," a source said. Several Iranians were killed in the raid, along with Sudanese smugglers and drivers, the source claimed. "No doubt the Iranians are checking back to see who might have leaked this to the Israelis," he said...