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...four men who commandeered the Italian liner received prison sentences that ranged from four to eight years. Two days after the proceeding, it was learned that the youngest was only 17 years old and would have to be retried in a juvenile court. A fifth defendant, Mohammed Issa Abbas, who was arrested in Genoa carrying false passports before the ship set sail, received a $1,700 fine and a nine-year sentence for smuggling Kalashnikov automatic rifles and hand grenades into Italy. Abbas, 24, told the court that he is a cousin of Abul Abbas. GREECE An Anniversary Gets Ugly...
...broke the 100-m world record in Athens last week with a 9.77-sec. race. Powell, a Jamaican, shaved one-hundredth of a second off the record, becoming only the fourth non-American since 1912 to lower the mark. Winning on the very track that dealt him a disappointing fifth-place finish in last year's Olympics makes it a doubly sweet success for Powell. Aptly, his African first name means "rising to the occasion...
...year-old son plods across the floor of her trailer, playing with an empty butter tub. But Odunsi and Nwanze's story has an Irish twist: Athlone didn't want to let them go. Within 24 hours of their departure, more than 4,000 people - nearly one-fifth of the town's population - had signed a petition asking Ireland's Justice Minister to reconsider. The town council passed a near-unanimous motion demanding that they be allowed to return, and hundreds of residents marched in a demonstration during which the leader of the Irish Senate declared her support. Posters still...
...fifth-seeded Crimson went 2-1 at Easterns, falling to fourth-seeded Hartwick before rebounding to take one-point victories over George Washington and then Brown in the fifth-place game. In 2004, Harvard came in seeded 10th and recorded a loss to the Hawks as well as a one-point win over the Colonials before topping Princeton for fifth...
Although students flocked to support both major candidates, Harvard remains a blue-state school—73 percent of voting undergraduates supported Kerry, while less than a fifth voiced support for Bush, according to an Institute of Politics (IOP) poll taken four days before the election. Independent candidate Ralph Nader earned three percent of College support...