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Jantzen, the No. 1 ranked wrestler in the EIWA at 149 lbs., is expected to contend for the NCAA title...
...through a shopping and dining area in his constituency, handing out pamphlets and grabbing handshakes from bemused residents, many of whom barely had time to register his face and blurted message, "Vote for us tomorrow, please," before he moved on. In the city-state, where the opposition has to contend with a monolithically progovernment media, this kind of flesh pressing is especially critical. But there was also something more, something almost frantic about the way Chee hurried though the hawker stalls and hardware shops, never looking back...
Janna McDougall, Ivy finalist and seasoned sprinter, will lead the Crimson into this season. After a rough transition into college swimming, McDougall bounced back last year with college and lifetime bests for Harvard. McDougall will contend for the Ivy championship in the 50-yard freestyle, an event she currently leads the league in with a time of 23.81. She will also shoot for the 100-yard freestyle and backstroke titles...
...with the cell, Tarek Maaroufi, referred to in Italian court papers as one of the "spiritual heads of the Salafist Group with a basic function of indoctrinating recruits." But Maaroufi lives in Belgium as a Belgian citizen, and no European Union country extradites its own citizens. The Belgian authorities contend that the Italians have not provided sufficient grounds for his arrest, nor have they seen fit to hand over his dossier to a Belgian prosecutor. A Belgian court found Maaroufi guilty in 1998 of criminal association connected to an earlier G.I.A. terrorist action, but the sentence was suspended...
Harvard has a lot of room to improve from its results last year. The men’s team finished in last place while the women’s team placed eighth out of the nine teams that competed. This year, the Crimson men are ready to contend for the title...