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...escape the demons of its post-exam funk. Despite its poor finish, the Crimson finished third in the ECAC, earning Harvard home ice in the first round. It will also be playing without sophomore forward Dennis Packard, who’s been sidelined with a bout of pneumonia...
Sharon is feeling heat from all sides. Since returning to the public eye after a bout with the flu, the Prime Minister has come under siege by Israelis fed up with the carnage he was elected to stop. Hard-liners want him to topple Arafat and reclaim Palestinian-held land; the dovish opposition is calling for a unilateral pullout from the occupied territories and a new round of peace talks. In a national address, Sharon tried to mollify both wings by acceding to neither; he instead announced the creation of "buffer zones" to separate the Palestinian territories from Israel...
RUSSIA They Seek Him Here Even as Russian Interpol spokesman Igor Tsiryulnikov was announcing that Victor Bout, wanted by Interpol on charges of arming the al-Qaeda network, "for sure is not in Russia," Bout was giving a live interview to Ekho Moskvi radio, just a short distance from the Kremlin. Bout, who runs his air-cargo empire from the United Arab Emirates, denied allegations of illegal arms trafficking in the interview and confirmed that he "never had any problems traveling across Russia...
Snyder would later say that, although he had originally planned to become a surgeon, his interest shifted toward medical research—particularly infectious diseases—after his bout with scarlet fever...
...Sharon is feeling heat from all sides. Since returning to the public eye after a bout with the flu, the Prime Minister has come under siege by Israelis fed up with the carnage he was elected to stop. Hard-liners want him to topple Arafat and reclaim Palestinian-held land; the dovish opposition is calling for a unilateral pullout from the occupied territories and a new round of peace talks. In a national address, Sharon tried to mollify both wings by acceding to neither; he instead announced the creation of "buffer zones" to separate the Palestinian territories from Israel...