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...more than 20,000 runners officially registered for the 108th annual Boston Marathon, about 16,000 braved unseasonal heat to complete the 26.2 mile course...
...become a ritual. Each Friday hundreds of young, impoverished Shi'ite men would pile into beat-up Kia minibuses in a Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. They would travel the 90-mile highway to the holy city of Kufa to lay their prayer mats inside the mosque, jockeying for a spot as close to the podium as possible. Whenever the white car carrying their leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, came into view, the scene would turn into pandemonium. Bodyguards with Kalashnikov ma-chine guns would struggle to carve out a path so al-Sadr could reach a platform beneath...
...American Iraqi cleric who launched the Shi'ite revolt, has ties to some conservative Iranian clerics. Current and former U.S. officials say Iran has also funneled money and weapons to other Shi'ite militias in Iraq. U.S. intelligence officials believe Iranian spies continue to slip across Iran's 900-mile border with Iraq, melting in among the thousands of Iranians who have resumed pilgrimages to the Shi'ite holy sites in Iraq...
...best effort turned in for Harvard was definitely that of junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman—running in his first meet for the Crimson in over a month because of the break between seasons and injuries—who finished second in the half mile race with a time...
Along with freshman Allyson Pritchett’s ninth place result in the quarter mile race and Harvard’s first 4x100m relay team this year, the small sprinting team looked like it has developed a core strength that will be crucial for Harvard to field a complete all around team at Heptagonals...