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Smith had allegedly invited Copney to campus and given her Harvard ID to the three men. After the shooting in Kirkland, Copney returned to Smith with the gun, saying that he had shot someone, and Smith hid the gun in a friend's room without the individual's knowledge, according to Leone's official statement about the case...
Once again, Harvard was led by its freshman class, which has transitioned smoothly to the collegiate level, accounting for 64 percent of the team’s scoring this season. The rookies will have to play an even larger role on offense given the injury sustained by last season’s Ivy League leader in goals per game, Jess Halpern, who went down with a knee injury in the Crimson’s second contest of the season against Johns Hopkins...
...Masters in April, regarding the access Augusta grants to media outlets that don't cover golf regularly. "You've got to start going there awhile before you get taken into the club." Masters organizers say the number of media passes distributed this year is on par with the number given out in years past, and they have already turned down requests from numerous outlets that don't cover golf. (See Tiger Woods' best victory moments...
...postsummit briefing included five senior Church officials but not the embattled leader of the Boston Archdiocese, a Massachusetts TV reporter barked out a question demanding the whereabouts of Cardinal Bernard Law: "When is the Cardinal going to resign?" The Cardinal would step down months later. But he has never given a full accounting of his role in the episode. (See TIME's 2002 cover story on the Boston sex-abuse scandal...
...past 31 years, the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran have attempted to diminish the public's attachment to these holidays. Last week, the Friday-prayers leader in the seminary city of Qom, Ayatullah Reza Ostadi, said Chaharshanbe Suri "is no different from other days, and, given that the outsiders of the establishment have heavily invested in this day, we must turn our backs on it." Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei echoed those sentiments, issuing a statement on his website Sunday in which, in reference to the celebration, he wrote that it has "no basis in shari'a [Islamic...