Word: bouting
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...ready,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “They showed a lot of courage. Many other people wouldn’t have [competed], but they wanted to go out on their own terms.” Unfortunately for the two seniors, they dropped opening round bouts to the top-seeded wrestlers at 157 and 165 lbs. and would not advance in the consolation draw. It was instead the future of Harvard wrestling that shone brightest. Sophomore J.P. O’Connor, ranked first in the tournament and second in the country, tore through...
McLoughlin, who tended the bar last week, braved a bout of the flu to come to the event...
...meantime, law enforcement agencies were catching up to Bout. In 2002, the Belgian government charged him with laundering $325 million. In 2005, the same year Nicolas Cage played a character based on Bout in the Hollywood film Lord of War, the U.S. Treasury placed Bout in the Specially Designated Nationals list, an action that threatened to impose economic sanctions against anyone conducting business with Bout. U.S. officials believe Bout is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A 2007 email that is part of the investigation that lead to Bout's arrest said the sanctions effectively froze about $6 billion...
...freeze may explain why Bout was willing to stick his neck out for new business. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) sting operation came together relatively quickly. According to the charging documents filed with the Southern District of New York, a confidential source working for the DEA emailed an associate of Bout in November to arrange for an arms shipment FARC. Using the code words "farming equipment" in the emails, Bout's intermediary allegedly planned for 100 Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen...
...that Bout's in custody, getting him in front of an American judge will be difficult. Thai authorities, who seem to be enjoying the publicity, said they are considering trying him in Thailand first before extraditing him. Other countries like Belgium, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates have also been investigating Bout. The Russian media has reported that the Kremlin may request Thailand extradite him to Moscow, where he has been living in recent years. If that happens, it is unlikely he would face any charges at all. But, for Viktor Bout, it doesn't look like he gets...