Word: nine
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...most serious blows against Schafer came from the testimony of Baar, a onetime member of the colony's inner circle who escaped in 1984, leaving behind nine children. Baar decried his former colleague as a paranoid dictator who rode around the compound in a bulletproof Mercedes-Benz carrying weapons and ammunition...
Some shell. Today Stanford is home to 1,200 faculty members and 13,300 students. Its faculty and staff include nine Nobel laureates, eleven National Medal of Science recipients, eight MacArthur Foundation Fellows and six Pulitzer prizewinners. Stanford students have won 59 Rhodes Scholarships and 27 Marshall Scholarships. Among the university's illustrious alumni are Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor; Football Stars Jim Plunkett and John Elway; Astronaut Sally Ride; TV Commentator Ted Koppel and -- would you believe? -- Harvard President Derek...
Outside France, feelings were less euphoric. There are now 16 foreign hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans and three Britons. The French deal raised fears that freeing those still held would be more difficult and that the release might even encourage more kidnapings. Pounding her hand in the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared, "We will not pay ransom!" In Washington, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman expressed the same view...
...seconds into the game, off an assist from Co-Captain Leelee Groome. The Tribe would not get as close as one goal again until the final minute of the contest. Co-Captain Cindi Ersek then tallied twice off assists from Groome and Katie McAnaney in a nine-second span, giving the Crimson a 3-0 lead with less than three minutes elapsed. Two goals from Kate Felsen sandwiched a Groome score, and Harvard led 6-0. The half ended with William and Mary trailing...
Harvard took a nine-hour bus ride to William and Mary yesterday. More long journeys await the Crimson if it advances in the tournament. But nothing is sweeter than an NCAA championship, an opinion the members of the 1904 golf team would confirm, if only they were around today...