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Reese was a late addition to the team’s tryout in August at Lake Placid, N.Y., but was not one of the 16 preliminary selections announced in October for the tournament, scheduled for Dec. 26, 2003-Jan. 5, 2004 in Helsinki and Hameenlinna, Finland...
Following a 2-8-1 skid to conclude the season, Harvard defeated Brown in two games at Bright to open the playoffs. The team moved on to Lake Placid, where it upset Clarkson 3-2 in overtime and then defeated top-seeded Cornell 4-3 in double overtime. Winning the ECAC title secured an NCAA tournament berth for the Crimson, and Harvard battled Maine valiantly before bowing out 4-3 in overtime...
...Yorker is attacked by the tiger he keeps as a pet in his Harlem apartment. Animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is mauled onstage. Back in 1981 in a cover story CATS: LOVE 'EM! HATE 'EM! TIME warned that these furry felines may look placid but are hardly tame...
...Every night I see African drug dealers on the streets and I'm getting sick of it," he says. "I want these people out, so this year I'm voting for the SVP." If the party wins big on Sunday - it currently leads the polls with 25% - Switzerland's placid political culture could be in for a shake...
...bodyguards and a driver. They left behind few clues, but turned up the heat on a long-simmering sectarian war between the country's majority Sunni community and the minority Shi'as. Thousands of Tariq's Sunni supporters rioted in Jhang, his hometown, and also in the normally placid capital, where they torched cars, ransacked markets and burned down a cinema - killing an employee - while police stood by and watched. While Tariq's followers blamed...