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...Crimson defense also had a tough night. Harvard was forced to fend off numerous BU power plays and struggled to match the speed of the Terrier forwards...
...generation the way the Kennedy assassination did. UCLA now offers courses on "Navigating Between Blithesome Optimism and Cultural Despair" and "Implications of World Crises for Student Stress and Academic Achievement," in which students will write a journal and interview one another. But on most campuses, rattled students have to fend for themselves. Mental-health services are mobbed; at Syracuse University there's now a 19-day wait to see a counselor unless it's an emergency. At Spirit Rock, a Buddhist meditation center in Northern California, attendance at teen meditation classes is up 30% since Sept. 11. Sophie Clavier...
Shaari has been forced to fend off such questions since the U.S. Treasury Department dubbed the Islamic center in north Milan the main station house in Europe for Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaeda network in early October. American officials say weapons, information, money and men have moved through a network of fundamentalists operating in and around the two-story, 400-sq-m center that blends into an industrial neighborhood of abandoned warehouses, low-rise offices and a Fiat repair shop...
Prior to their meetings with Bergman, Pirsu and Causevic each had to fend off one of Harvard’s other upstart freshmen in the quarterfinals...
...week later the luxury of time disappeared in the flames over New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania. The FBI was called upon to simultaneously investigate the four hijackings and track down leads that could fend off any future attack. That was enough to stretch the bureau to its limits. But then came anthrax and the new responsibility of finding out who sent the contaminated letters and where they got the bacteria. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was furious at the FBI field office last week because it did not inform him for nearly a week after it learned about...