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These three teams sat atop the polls week in and week out and took one of the nation’s three prestigious regattas...
...gift, a copper weather vane in the likeness of an ibis, had been stolen just days earlier from atop the castle of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Editors at The Harvard Crimson, the campus daily and longtime rival of the Lampoon, immediately claimed responsibility for the heist...
...Russian embassy, after a bit of clarification, soon returned the ibis, which had yet to make its way to Moscow. The Lampoon promptly placed the treasured icon back atop their smiling castle, more than two stories above the ground...
Updike also contended with a series of exploits by waggish Crimson editors that culminated in the nighttime theft of the Lampoon’s prized ibis statue from atop the building [See full story...
...depth coverage of the mainland in the U.S. had promise, given China's growing economic importance. "Cable operators should salivate to carry the only channel dedicated to China," he says. But the news program needed a major overhaul. Soon after he took the job, Terenzio installed a satellite dish atop his Los Angeles home and pointed it at the CCTV satellite so that he could assess the task at hand...