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...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team separated this past weekend, spanning the East Coast in search of Crimson victories. While the swimmers made the long trek to the University of Georgia for the Georgia Invitational, the Harvard divers traveled to Princeton to compete in their Ivy League nemesis’ home Big Al Invitational. The men’s swimming segment returned to Cambridge after its three-day contest with a second-place finish, while the divers left New Jersey with a solid eighth. GEORGIA INVITATIONAL The Harvard men’s swim team traveled south this...
Five minutes into the second period, Lin followed up a lay-up by freshman Oliver McNally with a coast-to-coast layup of his own, keeping the deficit to single digits at 47-39. But on the ensuing possession, the Crimson turned the ball over—one of 20 on the night—which led to a BU jumper...
...elements of the government are inclined to extort a share of the ransom payments - tens of millions of dollars this year alone - whenever possible. The International Maritime Board's Piracy Reporting Center says 14 ships and between 250 and 300 crew members remain in captivity along the Somali coast...
...Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star some 450 nautical miles out at sea - well beyond the pirates' previous range. One of the men involved in that raid, 24-year-old Mohamed Dashishle described a distinctly low-tech operation, though organized by men he said had once trained in the Somali coast guard. One of the pirates' "mother ships" spotted the tanker and deployed three small skiffs to surround it. Dashishle told TIME that the pirates simply had to brandish their rocket-propelled grenade launchers to intimidate the tanker. They never even fired a shot or boarded the ship before...
...dire has the piracy problem become that several international shipping companies have chosen to abandon the shortcut through the Suez Canal that requires their vessels to pass the Somali coast, and instead route them around South Africa. "As long as there is no firm deterrent, attacks will continue," said Noel Choong, chief of the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur. "The risks are low, and the returns are so high." And not only for the pirates, either...