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...bid ultimately failed, but only because of a technicality: the state’s Supreme Judicial Court refused to let MIT sell its Back Bay land to fund the merger...
...season. After going 9-10 through the regular season, Harvard took third at the Northern Division Championships. The finish was not good enough to punch an automatic ticket to the Eastern Championships, but after a couple of anxious days of waiting, the selection committee awarded Harvard an at-large bid. The eighth-seeded Crimson finished eighth, but the expereince will no doubt pay off over the next few years. “While we got better we are still young so a lot of it is just a seasoning issue,” Farrar said. “The experience...
...strength of its league crown, Harvard received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and drew Binghamton in the first round. The Crimson faced an early 1-0 deficit, but rallied to put away the Bearcats...
...There are five major U.S. dealers of murderabilia, according to Kahan, operating out of Georgia, Arkansas, Montana, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The dealers operate using the eBay model: sellers post their offerings and collectors bid. Some items come from the prisoners, their families, or even attorneys; other sellers simply write to notorious prisoners and ask for letters, personal items or artwork. Kahan alerts authorities to online sales, even buying up items to take them out of circulation, but he says that dealers are hard to pin down. "It's like trying to exterminate cockroaches - they move from one site...
...more pain and horror for the victims. In April, Denise Johnson and Victoria Snider, whose husband and sister, respectively, were killed in 2002 by the Beltway Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo, were shocked when they learned that his sketch of Osama bin Laden was for sale on murderauction.com. The starting bid was $399, but so far the Canadian seller nicknamed "Redrum" - murder spelled backwards - has yet to sell the crudely drawn portrait. "It would be worthless without Malvo's name on it," Kahan says. "It is profit from ill-gotten notoriety...