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...first time in the history of Harvard's fencing program, the women placed first in the team competition at the NCAA Northeast Regional Qualifier held Saturday at Brooklyn College...
...hantavirus, a rodent-borne killer that swept through the Four Corners area of the American Southwest last spring, has claimed its first life in the Northeast. Health officials have not yet determined how or when 22-year-old David Rosenberg of Rosyln, New York, became infected. Fifty-nine people have developed the infection so far; the disease, which is difficult to treat, is fatal 60% of the time...
...York is the largest center for debutante balls in the Northeast. Debutantes at Harvard, as elsewhere, seem to come either from New York or somewhere in the South, and come out of either through a charitable organization or a social club...
...south, women generally come out in their sophomore year or when they're 19, while in the Northeast it's the freshman year at college or age 18. The anonymous sophomore was an exception to this rule. "I was a year older than the other girls. I was supposed to do it the year before, but I was in Nepal, living in a monastery...
...chief of police says, "They want to operate outside the law" -- but they are undeniably effective at chasing away crime and drugs in communities where nothing else works. Charles Manso has sold ice cream and sundries for 20 years from a battered white truck on a desolate corner in northeast Washington, an area without grocery stores, barbershops, even Laundromats. "There used to be shootings all the time," he says. "Drug dealers used to surround my truck. The Muslims keep them away...