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...team president Matthew Silverman ’98 joined the Rangers’ Jon Daniels (Cornell), the Red Sox’ Theo Epstein (Yale), and former Dodgers’ GM Paul DePodesta (Harvard) as the fifth former Ivy League graduate to run a major league team. Even the top dog of my team, Mark Shapiro, is a former Princeton Tiger...
...Similar signs were seen throughout Jerome, which enforced a curfew from dusk to dawn starting Monday night, as police prevented people without valid identification from entering the ruined town. "I'm a little hard of hearing and I was in the basement - me and my dog - so I didn't hear a thing," said Yvonne McCauley, 77, who was out during the curfew walking her dog, Molly. "But when I came out, my neighborhood, it was terrible to see. My neighbor's car was squashed, and another neighbor had a tree that crashed on his house. Me, I just feel...
...court martial of Sgt. Michael J. Smith, which opened at Fort Meade, Md., this week, is a "dog bites man " story with potentially national implications. Prosecutors say that the 24-year old military dog handler from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., "tormented, terrorized and terrified" prisoners at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, and have charged him with five counts of prisoner mistreatment, four assaults, two counts of conspiracy, one of dereliction of duty and a final charge of committing an indecent act. All involve his use of a black Belgian Shepherd named Marco at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 and early...
...point to statements made by Army Col. Thomas Pappas, the senior military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, who has said he had approval from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a former commandant of Guantanamo who helped establish interrogation rules at Abu Ghraib. According to Pappas, Miller approved the use of dogs to extract information from detainees. In a statement given under oath on Jan. 25 after he was granted immunity from prosecution, Col. Pappas said he personally approved the use of dogs for a handful of prisoners. That approval, he said, came just days before now notorious photographs - since introduced...
Black asphalt replaced powdery white snow, humans stood in for dogs, and six-person teams raced 1,049 feet around the MAC Quad in the Alaska Klub’s simulation of the Alaskan Iditarod Saturday. The Klub contest’s winners received 1,049 ounces of beer instead of the generous monetary award for winners of the official Iditarod, a 1,049 mile race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska that ended on Saturday. Five members of each human Iditarod team ran around the MAC Quad, pulling the ropes attached to a homemade sled on which the sixth team...