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...event, with host Georgia taking the victory. The Bulldogs scored 1015 points, while the Crimson managed 268. The women won one event through Sunday and made it to the B-Final of a number of the others. Harvard’s moment to shine came when junior diver Samantha Papadakis triumphed in the 1-Meter Diving event. Papadakis placed No. 4 in the 3-Meter event, the Crimson’s second highest finish of the two days. The Harvard freshmen were the team’s top finishers in a number of events. Freshman Alexandra Clarke finished...
...with a 198-100 triumph over Penn while giving its freshmen an introduction to collegiate competition. “We always go into Penn expecting to see a lot from our girls because Penn isn’t what I would call our biggest competition,” junior diver Alison Pipitone said. “It was an exciting way to kick off the season with an exciting win.” The freshmen made quite a splash at the meet, winning three events and placing in the top three in several others. Freshman Alexandra Clarke took first...
...roots of the VA's reformation go back to 1994, when Bill Clinton appointed Kenneth Kizer, a hard-charging doctor and former Navy diver, as the VA's under secretary for health. Kizer decentralized the VA's cumbersome health bureaucracy and held regional managers more accountable. Patient records were transferred to a system-wide computer network, which has made its way into only 3% of private hospitals. When a veteran is treated, the doctor has the vet's complete medical history on a laptop. In the private sector, 20% of all lab tests are needlessly repeated because the doctor doesn...
...some 50 foreigners in Lebanon, including 18 U.S. citizens, and killing two of them, notably CIA station chief William Buckley. The group's global reach was achieved perhaps in 1985 with a suspected connection to the saga of TWA Flight 847, in which hijackers shot dead a U.S. Navy diver and dumped him onto a Beirut tarmac. In 1992 Hizballah bombed the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29, and, in 1994, a Jewish cultural center there, killing...
DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Va. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the seventh grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school--unofficially, it was for whites only--where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...