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...good meet,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “A great start, and it was great to see the freshman get out those jitters in their first time in the Crimson singlet.”The freshman foursome of Lauren Leon, Magda Robak, Shannon Conway, and Kim O’Donnell took third in the women’s 4x400-meter relay, clocking in less than a second behind the BU team at 3:57.43.“We’re especially happy with how they did,” women?...
...voice early on; she was schooled in opera from the age of 13. Appearing in a tour of the musical Finian's Rainbow in her late teens, she started to lend her classical and musical-stage training to the folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively scalding interpretations of "Muleskinner, Easy Rider" and "God's Gonna Cut You Down," announced the arrival of a voice whose...
...ruled Nov. 20 that the Bush administration's case against five Algerians (first detained in Bosnia) was too weak to prevent their release. The hearing followed a June Supreme Court ruling giving the men the right to argue against their detention in court. In a rare move, Judge Richard Leon urged the government not to appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody. He is appealing.) TIME spoke to one of the case's lead defense attorneys...
...Were you surprised by Judge Leon's ruling? It was clear that the government's case was collapsing even before trial. Then it further disintegrated in the course of the trial. It would have been surprising if there had been some other outcome...
...Washington, D.C. hearing work with your clients imprisoned at Guantanamo? They actually testified by live video link. One of my partners examined them in Guantanamo in a large room with a camera and then the government cross-examined them from Judge Leon's courtroom in Washington. I think that may have been a first as far as I know...