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...loss to Brown in yesterday’s ECAC Division I Championship semifinal, the Harvard men’s tennis team relinquished its three-year stranglehold on the title. The Crimson lost the doubles point—only its third pair of Dan Nguyen and Shantanu Dhaka won, 8-5—but knotted the score at 2-2 halfway through the singles competition. Freshman Sasha Ermakov surmounted a 4-1, 40-15, third-set deficit to win at No. 2 singles, giving Harvard a 3-2 edge. His classmate Chris Clayton then lost at No. 3, knotting...
...ARRESTED. MOULANA FARIDUDDIN MASUD, 60, one of Bangladesh's leading Islamic clerics; in connection with more than 430 simultaneous bomb attacks across Bangladesh on Aug. 17 that killed two people and injured 125; in Dhaka. Masud, who ran several Islamic charities, including a hospital, was taken into custody as he prepared to board a flight to London. Police say he is suspected of having links to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned extremist group which claimed responsibility for the attacks and last week warned of further violence if the government does not agree to introduce Islamic law in Bangladesh. Masud denies...
...expert at Chinese law at New York University who is advising the family. Xie, whose detention was only made public last week, has been allowed a visit from his wife and from U.S. consulate officials. No specific accusations have yet been brought against him. ATTACKED. BANGLADESH, including the capital Dhaka and 63 of the country's 64 districts; with more than 400 coordinated bombings on Aug. 17. The small homemade devices, which were detonated almost simultaneously, targeted government offices, courts, and press clubs, resulting in two deaths and over 200 injuries. An Islamic extremist group called Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh claimed...
...captain Jonathan Chu was first to complete his singles match, losing 6-3, 6-3 and giving Brown a 2-0 edge. But freshman Ashwin Kumar and sophomore Shantanu Dhaka both won in straight sets to knot the dual-match score...
...Dhaka had dropped the third match 9-7, and though Chu and Kumar battled back from a 6-3 deficit to win in the top match in a tiebreak, Chiu and Nguyen fell...