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While the wreckage in Lockerbie was meticulously sifted for bomb clues, no such effort was made in Gander. Yet there was good reason to take seriously the Islamic Jihad's boast that it had blown up the Arrow Air jet. Telephone calls claiming responsibility for the crash were immediately received by both the U.S. consulate in Oran, Algeria, and Reuters news agency in Beirut. The Beirut caller even knew that the plane had been delayed for five hours in Cologne, and explained that was why it blew up over Canada instead of over the U.S. He said...
...when even the top academicinstitutions boast student bodies that rallyaround their athletic teams-Duke and StanfordUniversities come to mind-few Harvard studentstoday are heard bursting out in song with "10,000Men of Harvard...
Despite the loss of All-Americans Jay McMahon (to graduation) and Andrew Towers (academically ineligible), Brown continues to boast a shockingly powerful attack this year, including the Ivy League's leading scorer, senior Darren Lowe (18 goals, 34 assists...
...weeks ago, our publisher used this space to boast a little about the string of prizes we've collected over the past year. This week I'm borrowing ; the space to talk about an award that the publisher herself just won. Lisa Valk, the first woman ever to hold the title of publisher at TIME, has won the 1992 Matrix Award in recognition of her "outstanding career achievement" in the magazine industry. The Matrix, administered by the New York chapter of Women in Communications, is the nearest thing to an Oscar for female magazine executives (past winners include Gloria Steinem...
...legendary Tower of Babel had hired a work crew from Utah, the massive structure might actually have been completed instead of collapsing in the confusion of the workers' diverse languages. The linguistically savvy Utahans could have worked like bees in a hive. Or at least that is the boast among modern-day locals, who are using their language skills to build the economy of their home state...