Word: haven
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...British teams, 21-17, to claim the coveted Naughton Trophy once again. The Harvard/Yale-Oxford/Cambridge meet is the world’s oldest continuing international intercollegiate competition, dating back to 1894. The two countries involved trade off hosting each other, and this year, the four teams headed off to New Haven, Conn., for the historical event. “There’s sort of one word that sums it up and that’s tradition,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “There’s a tremendous amount of tradition and history with this...
...addition to the giveaways, the company is employing another aggressive plan to expand its brand in tough times. Denny's is embracing its history as an after-party haven for young, hungry drunks (and, the company is quick to point out, sober people too). For years, countless 20-somethings across the country, after a night of carousing, have suddenly craved a Grand Slam - pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, the works - to soak up the alcoholic suds in their stomachs. It's 3 a.m., the bars are closed ... let's go to Denny's. (Not that I, for one, know...
...into Pakistan] by your great military offensive [in Afghanistan]," he said sarcastically. "For seven years nothing has happened, and now we are weak and you are unable to do anything about it ... I've lost my wife, my friends, the support of my countrymen ... and in eight years you haven't been able to eliminate the cancer...
...disillusionment with the ANC. "My life was better during apartheid," says Vincent Ntswayi, 53, who held a steady job in Johannesburg during white rule but has only been intermittently employed since. "Freedom turned out to be just a word. Real freedom, real power, that comes from money - and I haven't got any money...
...aversion to foreign forces. Fiercely conservative and suspicious of outsiders, the country bristled under the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the early 1990s and the Ethiopia occupation over the past few years. "The sea and the land are the same," says Abdinaser Biyokulule, a pirate recruiter in the pirate haven of Bossaso. "Foreign troops did not succeed on land, so they will not succeed in the sea either...