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...Crimson tied things up in the top of the second on an RBI double by Zailskas, while freshman pitcher Matt Doyle held Northeastern scoreless in the bottom half of the inning...
Adams House’s three Undergraduate Council representatives scooped vanilla ice cream and fielded questions from student constituents last night at the second pilot “UC Study Break” held in Adams dining hall...
Tied for third are Andrew Jackson and William Taft. Old Hickory's most memorable appointment was Roger Taney, the Chief Justice who delivered the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott decision, which held that slaves could never be U.S. citizens. Taft has the distinction of cramming more appointments into four years in office than any other President since Washington in his first term. He got six out of six confirmed and (after losing re-election in 1912) was able to see the process from the other side: in 1921 he became the first person to serve as both President...
Otunbayeva confirmed on Friday, April 9, that arrest warrants had been issued for Bakiyev and several male relatives who held senior posts in his administration. She pledged not to use force against them but said she could not guarantee their safety from "marauders" seeking revenge for last week's slaying of protesters. "What he did calls for a serious trial," Otunbayeva told Reuters on Sunday, adding, "To be honest, we can hardly restrain those who are ready to rush there [to his stronghold] with rifles." (See pictures of the struggle for power in Kyrgyzstan...
...ends in Kyrgyzstan, that this redistribution of property and this armed free-for-all stops," he said. "Secondly, if my personal security and that of my family and my relatives is guaranteed." Bakiyev also stated that the interim government had to "start preparing a snap presidential election to be held within two or three months...