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After graduation, McLean-Foreman, an economics concentrator, plans to run competitively and take over direct management of HDO Sports. However, it may not be too long before Harvard’s track team imports another star from across the Atlantic—McLean-Foreman’s nine-year-old brother Ian, a promising runner in his own right, has already visited Harvard, and the recruiters need only wait—with bated breath—a brief eight years...
...rest of the two-hour show was a parade of sequins and flashy costumes, featuring a range of performers that included nine-year-old local Diandra Burke and Oleg and Ludmilla Protopopov, who won Olympic gold medals in 1964 and 1968 and who have been skating together for over 50 years...
...Although the Hmong have been on the run for nearly three decades, Moua and others in his village regard the past year as the worst. In October, they say, some 500 ground troops attacked them from four directions in Xaysomboune while a gunship strafed them from above. In all, 216 Hmong were killed. Such assaults can come at any time. Last August, a mortar round landed less than a meter from nine-year-old Yeng Houa's family dinner table, killing both his parents. Yeng survived, but I count 18 shrapnel scars on his legs, his jaw is broken...
With each new report of an atrocity by the Iraqi regime--a woman hanged for waving at a coalition soldier, a nine-year-old boy shot because his family refused to cooperate with Saddam's forces--the President grew more anxious to repeat his message. "Resolve," said a senior Bush aide. "That's what people who have loved ones who are POWs want to hear. That's what the guys in the field who are fighting this thing want to hear. And he is going to hammer it home and hammer it home and hammer it home." So when Bush...
...Amber Alert system begin? The Amber Alert system originated in Arlington, Texas after the 1996 abduction and murder of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was taken while riding her bicycle outside her family's home. Time is a critical factor in abduction cases: Seventy-four percent of children who are murdered by their kidnappers are killed within three hours of being taken. And so, after Hagerman's death, the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers proposed a method of quickly alerting the public, media and police when a child was kidnapped...