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BOSTON—The opening game of the 52nd Annual Beanpot Tournament featured defending-champion Boston University (8-10-6, 4-9-2 Hockey East) skating against Northeastern (7-13-4, 2-10-3) last Monday evening. In a fast-paced game that featured a number of odd-man rushes, the Terriers pulled out a 5-2 win. BU will face Boston College in the Beanpot championship on Monday...
...That was odd, but not the first time that Zhu had portrayed himself as the innocent victim of dark forces. He had long maintained that other officials in Heilongjiang had set him up after he discovered their connection to the bomb-shelter debacle. In a 34-page letter to the court, he described being chained to a hook on the cement floor of a prison basement as interrogators beat him into confessing. "If you die here," he quoted one saying, "your family won't even get your ashes." The official who oversaw the investigation, he went...
...this comes to pass in the first 30 pages, dispensing early on with the fundamental mystery of why the tapestries might have been woven in the first place. The drama in the following 200-odd pages is stirred up when Nicolas travels to Brussels to oversee the tapestries' production and, with his randy ways, disrupts the family of Georges de la Chapelle, the weaver hired to implement the designs. Nicolas flirts with Georges's blind daughter Alienor, thereby upsetting Georges and his wife Christine, who are already anxious because of the nearly impossible deadline Le Viste...
...wasn't Saddam who masterminded 9/11, nor was it Iraqis who flew the planes that day. The man to go after is Osama bin Laden, and the one Arab nation we want to keep our eyes on is Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 hijacking terrorists came from. ODD TERJE DOVIK Kristiansand, Norway
Owen-Jones accepts that L'Oreal might have the odd off year, but in the long term, he sees no reason why all the markets shouldn't keep on growing, even the most developed ones. Take Sensation Totale, a skin-soothing lotion designed to go under the moisturizer that is Lancome's hottest product in the U.S. Does a premoisturizer moisturizer seem like a fanciful idea? Perhaps not in the American market, where women put an average of seven products on their face each morning. And certainly not in the Korean market, where L'Oreal also has a presence...