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...were summoned into being with a now famous single line of coded text passed from phone to phone: "Go 2 EDSA [an acronym for a Manila street]. Wear blck." In Nigeria, the same technology was used to spark anti--Miss World riots that killed hundreds and drove the beauty contest out of Africa...
Yale President Richard C. Levin—known as a leading figure opposed to graduate student organizing—will likely contest results from an NLRB election, GESO organizers said...
...Crimson (25-1-1, 15-0-1 ECAC) has already faced Cornell (4-19-2, 2-12-2) twice this year. Harvard crushed the Big Red 8-0 when the teams met in November. In last week’s contest, Cornell showed little improvement, losing only 7-1. The Crimson outshot the Big Red a combined 107-21 in the two games. Nonetheless, the Crimson skaters are wary...
According to the Los Angeles Times, Taradash told his father, “If at the end, I still hadn’t made it I promised him I’d go into law full time.” When Taradash won a playwriting contest in 1938 and was then was signed by Columbia Studios to collaborate on the script for the film Golden Boy, his career as a screenwriter was sealed...
Sitting comfortably in the upper tier of the FleetCenter last week, I waited, hot dog in hand, for the start of the Celtics game. Just another mid-winter contest in the interminably drawn-out NBA season, against a visiting Houston Rockets team that does not have a particular rivalry with the Celts or Bostonians in general...