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...with reporters, and a CIA spokesperson says, without identifying McCarthy, that the fired CIA officer also admitted disclosing classified information to the media. Sources said this includes the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for writing that the CIA secretly detained terrorists in Eastern Europe who hadn't been charged with a crime. Beyond that, the case gets murky. Government sources tell TIME that McCarthy might have helped inform the prisons story. Through her attorney, she denies the allegation and denies that she leaked classified information about the detention program or any other topic...
...Akihiko Tanaka, a professor of Eastern culture at the University of Tokyo, says Roh's speech and Japan's breezy dismissal of it demonstrate just how differently the two countries see the legacy of Japan's colonial past. "For Japan, this is a territorial issue and little more," Tanaka says. But for Korea, it's a matter of history and justice. "To them, it's another show of how Japan is not owning up to its past." In Korea, bitter memories of Japan's colonial occupation live on, harbored by people at the highest levels of government. Lee Hye Hoon...
Providence, RI—The eighth-seeded Harvard water polo team finished its season in eighth place out of the eight teams at the Eastern Championships in Providence, R.I., falling to sixth-seeded Maryland, 4-3, in the seventh-place game on Sunday morning.The previous day, the Crimson had fallen to top-ranked Hartwick, 13-2, and fourth-seeded Indiana, 7-6.Last year, the Crimson finished fifth at Easterns. “This is definitely the toughest pool of teams that I have seen at Easterns in all my four years,” said captain and driver Arin Keyser...
...result], we didn’t race as we can and should have.”It was not a total disappointment for the lightweight squad, as the team only lost by that three-second margin while racing poorly. The defeat also gives Radcliffe extra motivation for Eastern Sprints in two weeks—it is a wake-up call to get the team re-focused.“Princeton raced really well, but that race is not indicative of the speed we can have,” Antony said. “The loss is a great motivating factor...
...However, the Crimson was without the guiding forces of seniors Travis Hughes and Lawrence Adjah, who were busy competing in the nationally acclaimed Penn Relays. Hughes and Adjah took first and second, respectively, in the college men’s triple jump in the Relays’ Eastern division. Although captain Samyr Laine, still plagued by a “freak” leg injury, was unable to compete at either Penn or New Hampshire, he nonetheless flew out to cheer on Hughes and Adjah at the Relays. “I haven’t decided...