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...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team (5-1, 4-1 Ivy) puts its four months of official workouts on the line this weekend at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton double dual meet. The Tigers and the Bulldogs will be the Crimson’s fiercest and most difficult competition so far this year, and the results from this weekend will set the stage for the Ivy Championships at Harvard later this month...
...Berlin" as a product with no expiration date. He was second only to Walt Disney at branding, and extending the brand. Both men were media visionaries; they saw that such seemingly ephemeral items as cartoons and pop songs had a potentially infinite shelf-life. They were the best and fiercest curators of their achievement...
...with Taliban stragglers. An Alliance foot soldier, hit in the back, lay doubled over in pain. Others rained blows on a captured jihadist as he was duckwalked toward a jeep. Occasionally a small black puff and a crack would mark the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade. But the fiercest fighting, a remarkably brief exchange of recoilless rifle and mortar, had tapered off shortly before; and by 4:30 the brigade rolled over what for two years had been the immovable front line in this war. By dusk all resistance had disappeared, and the northerners camped for the night...
...battle for Kabul lasted less than three hours. Just three days before, an optimistic Alliance commander had been predicting it would last two weeks. The fiercest fighting ran roughly from 1:30 until 3:30 Monday afternoon; then Taliban frontline defenses began to crumble. The battle took place 28 miles to the city's north, but Taliban commanders mounted no counterattack. Alliance sources reported having lost a grand total of 10 men. There was a variety of reasons for the rout. The intense American bombing of Taliban forward troops had been devastating. The rapid fall of Mazar-i-Sharif...
...hearings sometime next year. Though tempted to settle, the dissenters decided they had been through too much to win so little. "We want real reform," says California attorney general Bill Lockyer. "Not a fig leaf." (California, like Massachusetts and Utah, is home to some of Microsoft's fiercest competitors...