Word: closers
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...couldn't get much closer. With a huge crowd cheering her on, Cummings came through with a clutch win in her very last game to seal the Crimson victory over the Tigers. The women were not displaced from their throne...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a concession to Boris Yeltsin's continued poor health, President Clinton will travel to Helsinki next month for a two-day summit. The meeting, scheduled for March 20-21, was originally set for Washington, but was moved to a site closer to Moscow out of concerns about the Russian President. The trip will be Yeltsin's first trip abroad in nearly a year, after heart ailments and pneumonia in the last six months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo...
LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...
Attempting to put a positive spin on the decision, Associate Dean of Freshmen in Residence Lorraine Sterritt argued, "These students will be as close if not closer [to the Yard] than those living in the Union dorms." But past expansion cannot justify another round of housing sprawl, let alone one that will land a dorm between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delhi Darbar restaurant. And even if Hurlbut, Pennypacker and Greenough no longer have the Union, at least they have each other...
...this money? Is it, as some have theorized, locked away in opaque offshore havens such as Belize or the Isle of Man? (The Goldmans were so concerned that Simpson might have tried to hide money offshore that they engaged international sleuth Kroll Associates to find it.) The truth is closer to home. While Simpson may have stashed some funds overseas, the bulk of his remaining wealth is sunk into completely legal, completely domestic havens: two pension and retirement funds that he set up long ago and that now hold at least $2.5 million, according to sources close to the case...