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Moments ago, Lin had come up with a steal near midcourt and barreled to the basket, where he was met by George Washington’s Dwayne Smith. The collision sent Lin to the Harvard trainer, who soon got the bleeding under control...
...messages sent through the "Message Me" system. Cambridge resident Justin Cosby, 21, had been shot to death in the basement of Kirkland House in what prosecutors say was a failed “drug rip.” Cosby was found with $1,000 and one pound of marijuana near his body, and The Crimson reported that he may have been involved in drug sales to Harvard students. Three months later, police apprehended all three suspects they believe were involved in the shooting. Jabrai J. Copney, 20, was the first to be arrested and arraigned after he turned himself...
...That was back when nations waged war against one another; today's bad guys are increasingly "non-state actors." Near the top of the list right now are Naser Abdel-Karim Wahishi and former Guantanamo detainee Saeed Ali Shehri, the leaders of the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). AQAP is believed to have trained and outfitted alleged airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. There is also intelligence suggesting that radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based cyber pen pal of Major Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 Army personnel at Fort Hood in November...
...maturity could lead him to the ministry. A devout Christian, Lin, who is an economics major, is considering becoming a pastor in a church near his Palo Alto home. "I've never really preached before," Lin says. "But I'm really passionate about Christianity and helping others. There's a beauty in seeing people change their lifestyles for the better." (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...
...this is still Mexico; and while Spanish colonizers no longer oppress the country, and dictators like Porfirio Diaz aren't brutalizing campesinos, the country nonetheless is reeling from the worst criminal violence in its history and one of its hardest economic slumps. "We are very near a social crisis," José Narro, the director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, said recently. "The conditions are there." (Will the world end in 2012? What the Mayan prophecy is and how the movies...