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...scoring drought of more than eight minutes against hometown rival Boston University sent the Crimson to its fifth consecutive loss, a 70-59 decision last night at Lavietes Pavilion...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Second-Half Surge by BU Takes Down Crimson | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...team scatters behind the altar to slip into the newly agreed-upon outfits, short-shorts over fishnets, and matching lime-Green “Fifteen Minutes” T-shirts. Fee pops open the day’s fifth can of Diet Coke. “Coke should so be our sponsor,” he quipped, chasing a nugget of beef jerky with the aspartame-filled brew...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dance of a Lifetime | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...world’s fifth wealthiest man, Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, is donating $20 million to Harvard to expand Islamic studies, the University announced yesterday. The donation will be used to launch a University-wide Islamic studies program and to endow four senior professorships, according to a press release. The gift will also fund a new initiative, the Islamic Heritage Project, which will digitize classic Islamic texts and make them available via the internet. Alwaleed, who is the nephew of the late King Fahd, became the center of controversy shortly after the September...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Islamic Studies Gets $20M Gift | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

...department receives 250,000 calls each year, one-fifth of which are emergency calls...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who You Gonna Call? Kirk Wornum | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

...terminal stores various grades of petroleum-based fuel for cars and airplanes, and is used by a variety of oil companies. It normally loads about 400 tanker trunks a day, and has pipelines connecting to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Though the terminal is the country?s fifth largest, no serious disruption to gasoline supplies is expected as emergency plans to draw from other depots kick in. Fire chiefs said they had extinguished a fire at a nearby warehouse caused by the explosion, but were waiting to assemble enough equipment and foam from nearby districts before tackling the main blaze-which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Fire of London | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

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