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Connor says Donati, who, he assumes, hired two mugs to actually carry out the theft, initially intended to use the loot as a bargaining chip, though he won't say for what. "Then they got a tremendous offer for it," he says. Not from the Irish Republican Army, a name that has surfaced over the years, and not "from, per se, a political organization. But something a little more powerful than just a wealthy, eccentric collector." Whatever, it fell through, and the pieces were put into storage. Connor says Donati and Houghton later told him that if anything happened...
...Crimson continued to chip away at the deficit throughout the first half until co-captain and two-time defending Ivy League Player of the Year Allison Feaster put Harvard ahead for the first time on a three-point play with just over five minutes left in the period...
...ages," sighs chief College Board researcher Howard Everson). Some point out that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than SATs. Others argue that the test favors not just whites but boys. An entire advocacy group called FairTest exists almost solely to generate press releases that chip away at the SAT's encrusted position in American education...
...technology increasingly elevate E-mail and faxes over the human touch finds itself yearning for the days not of its parents but of its grandparents. "You get constant change coming at you, and the reaction is to head to the things of comfort--family, religion, marriage, kids," says Chip Walker, director of global marketing for Phillips, the electronics maker...
...What happened? First of all, heavy selling in Tokyo ? where the blue-chip Nikkei 225 index plummeted 697.51 points, or 4.2 percent, to end at 15836.36. It was the first time the index retreated below the 16000 mark since 1995. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong dropped another 2.95 percent Friday, ending down...