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...recently: we?re not far from the former World Trade Center. How not-close? Well, these days, anyone who lives or works in lower Manhattan brags about how close they are to Ground Zero. I live on Hudson Street, three blocks above Chambers Street - eight blocks from the northern hem of the World Trade Center complex. Or maybe we?re closer. In a recent interview in The Guardian, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein said that the explosions ?happened six blocks away from our offices in Tribeca.? Since the Miramax offices are three blocks north of us, perhaps we?re only three...
...Harvard men’s water polo team upset UMass in the third-place game of the Northern Championships on Sunday, 6-5. After a multi-year losing streak to the No. 13 Minutemen—including three earlier losses this season and five last year—the Crimson finally triumphed...
...Time for Plan B. The first major ground battle, near Mazar-i-Sharif, took place last Monday, when hundreds of Northern Alliance troops serving under two commanders, Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and Tajik general Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta, swept toward the city and the 20,000 entrenched Taliban troops protecting it. The Alliance forces advanced to within 12 miles of Mazar, but a fierce Taliban counterattack led to savage street battles; Alliance forces managed to hold their front line but failed to advance much further. It's unlikely that the Alliance will march on Mazar anytime soon. The Taliban...
...guys have never been [to NYC],” said Laborsky, who hails from northern New Jersey. “On a personal note, it’s a weird feeling to come across the bridge and not see the New York skyline you’re used...
Having lost this season’s first three games against the University of Massachusetts, the Harvard men’s water polo team finally defeated the Minutemen 6-5 yesterday to cap an impressive weekend at the Northern Division Championships at Brown University...