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...basketball team knocked off its second Ivy League foe in as many days on Saturday behind strong performances from senior Laura Robinson and freshman Katie Rollins. The Crimson (7-11, 3-2 Ivy) dominated Cornell with an improved defense and red-hot three-point shooting to grab an 80-71 victory. Rollins, a strong inside threat, sat for much of the first half because she incurred two quick fouls. In the second frame, however, her strong post moves and light touch helped Harvard quell potential threats from the pesky Big Red (6-13, 3-3) who often threatened to close...
...missile strike on a remote mountain village, where Pakistani intelligence officials say four other Qaeda operatives were killed.) But in the year of Bin Laden's silence, he has begun to be supplanted as the media face of global jihad by Musab al-Zarqawi, whose grisly exploits in Iraq grab headlines week after week. Not only that, Zarqawi may even be running operations abroad-his Iraq-based Qaeda affiliate is suspected of mounting last November's terror attacks on hotels in Jordan, as well as sending operatives on recruiting and fundraising missions in Europe-and his theater of operations...
...noise--and the alerts appear on the periphery of a screen that's larger than today's standards so that workers stay centered on their main task. The key, she says, is for an incoming message to provide just enough information for the worker to judge whether to grab it or ignore it until later. "We found that it's more calming to give them subtle alerts that aren't intrusive and which, should you glance at them, let you know whether you need to worry," she says...
...cold, stands in the corner of the bell’s platform, shielded from the bitter wind by the white walls, with an earpiece to hear the names being called down in the church below and a watch in his hand. The second the names are finished, he must grab the red clapper in his hand and smash it into the side of the bell every 10 seconds for two minutes...
...Midshipmen their first loss in 10 meets this season. Cocks, sophomore Geoff Rathgeber, and freshman Eric Lynch each won two individual races, as Harvard won six of the last seven events.The Crimson took the top three spots in three different events and the top four spots in one to grab decisive points from Navy (9-1, 2-1 EISL). Cocks led the first sweep, recording a victory in the 200 butterfly in 2:07.76, followed by freshman Dan Jones and junior Jason Degnan-Rojeski.“We were very strong in both butterflies,” said co-captain...