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...members of the Harvard men’s squash team, this season was nothing more than a rollercoaster ride. “Up and down,” junior Frank Cohen said. “We had a couple really good wins and had a couple very disappointing losses.” The Crimson began the season ranked No. 4 in the nation. Living up to expectations, the team started off with three straight home wins in late November, including a sound 9-0 crushing of then-No. 14 Brown and an 8-1 win over No. 10 Williams. With...
...world records, a number of clubs record significant dice rolls. Before Demauro's, the longest craps roll lasted three hours and six minutes - accomplished at a Las Vegas casino in 1989, with 118 rolls. And according to gambling expert and author of Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, Frank Scoblete, the highest number of successive dice rolls was 147, thrown by a man operating under the pseudonym the "Captain" in 2005. The average number of dice rolls before sevening out? Eight...
...Austrian-Canadian Magna group and Italy's Fiat SpA remain the strongest bidders for Opel. Under pressure from trade unions and key leaders of German states where Opel operates, Berlin has appeared thus far to favor the plan presented by the Austrian billionaire Frank Stronach, whose Magna group is a major worldwide supplier of components to GM. Stronach has teamed up with Russian carmaker OAO GAZ Group and the state-controlled Russian financial group OAO Sberbank. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been lobbying Merkel to support the Magna bid. Stronach told reporters on the sidelines of Wednesday's meeting...
...like Graham Boyd - whom I would have failed in primary school - who massacre English: "Searching a backpack is dramatically different than [from] asking a student to take their [his or her] clothes off" [Verbatim, May 4]. It's, like, embarrassing, man, when you use TIME to teach people English. Frank O'Meara, L'ISLE-ADAM, FRANCE
DIED Two days after losing a bid for re-election as mayor of Jackson, Miss.--and four days before the start of his third trial for demolishing a suspected drug den without a warrant--Frank Melton, 60, succumbed to heart failure. A polarizing figure, Melton was known for patrolling Jackson's streets with a police badge and guns even though he was not a licensed officer...