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...final tune-up before Ivy League Championships, the No. 25 Harvard women’s swimming and diving team took nine of 11 events in an exhibition relay meet with Northeastern Friday at Blodgett Pool. Sophomore Katy Hinkle was part of three winning teams, anchoring the 150-yard butterfly relay and leading off in the 200-yard medley and 250-yard medley relay events. Hinkle posted the top split (25.92) for her 50-yard butterfly leg as she teamed up with sophomore Robyn Thom and junior Sophie Morgan to win the opening butterfly relay. As the meet shifted to graduated...
...Academics used look at police like we were the white rats and they had the lab coats on ... But it's much better now. And for us, it's irresponsible not to seek the help when an entire city is trying to find some answers." - On hiring a Northeastern University criminologist from Boston to help determine why a man killed seven people, including himself, in a 2006 killing spree in Seattle, New York Times, June...
...artery: Infection is a risk, he says, but pulling it out could be even worse. "There are so many other things we have to worry about, so why go and open this can of worms?" he asks. In some areas, tackling the militias can backfire. In the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local commander Nazir Mohammad runs the provincial capital, Faizabad, as one big protection racket. Foreign humanitarian organizations that don't hire his security services face attacks. When organizers at the German-run regional military-assistance base attempted to dismiss his men because of a compelling accusation of murder...
...what makes Snowe and Collins more powerful now is that they, along with Specter, are nearly the last survivors of a once common species of moderate Northeastern Republican. As the GOP's center of gravity moves to the right, the Democratic majority has fewer and fewer potential crossovers to choose from. That gives each woman enormous leverage in a Senate Republican caucus whose leaders cannot afford any defections if they are to sustain a filibuster. Both sides know that the math on any close vote is likely to come down to Snowe and Collins...
...hers in both the legislature and U.S. House; he later became Maine's governor. Snowe replaced George Mitchell when he retired from the Senate in 1994. Collins, 56, was one of six children in a politically active family in Caribou, a town of 8,300 at the nation's northeastern tip, 15 miles (24 km) from Canada. Her father was a state senator; her mother, a mayor; and an uncle, a state supreme court justice. She learned her way around Capitol Hill working as an aide to Senator William Cohen for 12 years. After losing a bid for governor...