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...York City. At that point, the investigation "amped up" again, the intelligence official says, as agents asked themselves the obvious question, "What does he have in his car that he can't put in an airplane? And who's waiting on the other end?" The timing was alarming: the eighth anniversary of 9/11 loomed, and Obama was due in Manhattan days later. Still, the feds didn't move to arrest Zazi: "We saw him as a possible plotter, a possible actor and a possible intelligence-collecting platform - someone who could lead us to a picture or a wider network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enemy Within: The Making of Najibullah Zazi | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...moreover, also appear to benefit from longer school years or days. The KIPP national network of charter schools, for example, has a school day typically running from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday class every other weekend, and a three-week summer session, and KIPP’s eighth-grade classes regularly outperform their district averages on standardized tests...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: More is More | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...right that the Olympics be held in the U.S. for the eighth time," Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said recently, in what was just one in a series of typical appeals to IOC delegates. "It's not possible that it be in England in 2012 and in another European country in 2016 ... It's not fair that Brazil, one of the 10 biggest economies in the world for 30 years; that Brazil, one of the world's industrialized countries, a nation that has demonstrated its love for sports; it's not fair that Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Olympics Quest: Can It Handle the 2016 Games? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

With twenty minutes left to play, a diving Kristen Mewis put a header off a cross into the near post for a 3-1 lead, and Victoria DiMartino gave her team a three-goal edge on her eighth score of the season...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: National Power Boston College Too Much for Struggling Crimson | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...pair of sophomore skipper Emily Lambert and second-year crew Alex Jumper managed the Crimson’s lone race victory, the duo placed 11th overall in its division. Lambert and Jumper placed in the top three in three of their 10 races, including the aforementioned victory in the eighth race of the weekend, but finished in the bottom half of the field in their other seven contests.NEVINS TROPHYHarvard’s top co-ed sailors made their way to Kings Point, N.Y. over the weekend, where the group placed 12th as a team in a field...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Women, Co-Eds Struggle in Weekend Races | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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