Word: lara
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DIED. OLGA IVINSKAYA, 83, longtime mistress of Russian novelist Boris Pasternak and inspiration for Lara, the heroine of his epic love story Doctor Zhivago; in Moscow...
Nizar Halaby died in a fusillade of bullets outside his home in Beirut this morning, and Lebanon may be closer to rekindled civil war because of it. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that Halaby, a leader of the influential Habashi, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim sect, "was thought to be the person most likely to become the next musti -- or highest religious leader -- of the Sunnis." The killing, by unknown assassins, is a setback for Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose government has been trying to shed the terrorist image Lebanon acquired during the 1975-1990 civil...
...unrecognized by their respective selection committees but made substantial contributions: softball's Tasha Cupp blasted onto the Ivy League scene, quickly becoming one of the Ancient Eight's top pitchers; swimmer Brian Younger won the high-point award at the Eastern Sprints in his first year of competition; diver Lara Jacobson placed second at Easterns and earned a U.S. Olympic team try-out with a sixth-place finish at the Mobile Diving meet; potent Mike Ferrucci waited just eight seconds into the lacrosse season before notching his first goal...
...little luck is what freshman Lara Jacobson is hoping for this summer in her own quest for the Olympic Games...
...Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York, Helen Gibson/London and Lara Marlowe/Luxor