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...board since the end of the first frame and had yet to score a touchdown. Thanks to a forced fumble by senior linebacker Eric Schultz, Harvard gained control early in the fourth. In no time, Pizzotti connected with sophomore wide receiver Marco Ianuzzi for a 68-yard bomb downfield for a touchdown. “There’s no question it changed the whole complexion of the game, gave us momentum, gave us energy, and from there on in we just played inspired football,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said of the completion...
...attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad should tell us a couple of things: For a start, no one and nothing is safe from a car bomb. Or, as in the Marriott's case, a truck bomb. As hotels go, the Marriott was a fortress. It had fairly good "standoff" - the distance between it and the street; luggage and guests were X-rayed before entering; the hotel was located in one of the best policed capitals in the world. The only thing that could have been done to make the Marriott even safer was to have completely shut down Islamabad...
...Pakistan's new president Asif Zardari was supposed to have been dining at the Marriott when the bomb went off, but had decided at the last minute to eat at the prime minister's house. Had he kept to his original dinner plans, he could very well have been killed, pushing Pakistan closer to total and uncontainable chaos. By the way, there is a fairly good argument that car bombs are what keep the world's leaders from getting out and walking around, leaving them physically isolated...
...pungent smell hung in Islamabad's air from the gently smouldering ruins of the Marriott Hotel, Pakistani officials released their preliminary findings into what they called "the biggest explosion in Pakistani history". The bomb attack in the heart of the capital has left 53 people dead and 266 injured, according to the Interior Ministry...
...virtually flawless grades and SAT scores” and “scored fives on ten Advanced Placement Exams,” among other things. Harvard has seen its fair share of new and sensational publications, from the ill-fated Scene to the pseudo-erotic H-Bomb, but never anything quite like this. In fact, I wonder if the world has ever seen a magazine featuring a nine-page interview with its editor, complete with nude photographs. Questions ranging from what effect the nude spread will have on di Pasquale’s future career prospects to why he chose...