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...wasn’t starting,” Fish said, “and he was still the biggest cheerleader. He was still going out for six-mile runs in the morning and he was still totally committed to the team, so that set the bar so high...
Junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman earned first place in the mile (4:08.2) and then came through in second in the 1000m as well. The two finishes solidify his top-five standing in each race in the league...
Senior Beverly Whelan and sophomore Laura Maludzinski turned in the best performances of this group with a double of the 800m and mile race. Whelan came within just over a second of winning the mile, placing fourth in the race behind three of Princeton’s runners...
...Okui was sent with his father and two brothers to the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp set on a windswept square-mile plot at the foot of California's Sierra Nevada, 220 miles north of Los Angeles. He spent three years there, living in tarpaper-covered barracks, where privacy could be eked out only by stringing sheets between bunks. Later, as a schoolteacher, he conducted tours of the site. But only now does Okui--and others who remain of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese, mostly American citizens, who were held at Manzanar and nine other internment camps...
...ranking members lie low just over Iraq's eastern border in the Iranian town of Marivan. Iranians there do a busy trade producing fake identity cards for Ansar fighters for their return to Iraq across the 5,000-foot mountains. With overburdened Iraqi border patrols guarding a 1,000-mile frontier, Ansar's return is almost impossible to block, and Kurdish guards expect little help from Iranian officials in stopping the infiltration...