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Northeastern freshman Crystal Poland and the Huskies (6-4) simply overwhelmed the Harvard Women’s field hockey team in the first half, scoring early and often to capture a 6-0 win over the Crimson...
...Poland wasted no time in attacking, netting her first goal just over a minute into the contest by streaking to the net where junior forward Meg Sweeney found her for the assist...
...Roman Polanski was arrested in the U.S. on number of charges related to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski, a citizen of both Poland and France, agreed to a plea deal but then fled to Paris before he could be sentenced. France does not extradite its own citizens, so the famous filmmaker remained safe as long as he didn't leave the country. But on Sept. 26, the 76-year-old traveled to Zurich, where he was intercepted by Swiss authorities. Switzerland, it seems, has no qualms about complying with U.S. extradition requests. (Read "Roman Polanski...
...high profile extraditions can take years to complete. Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was living in New York Cit? in 1964 when authorities discovered she had actually been a guard at Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp. She was stripped of her U.S. citizenship but the slow legal process - both Germany and Poland wanted to extradite her - kept her in the the country until 1973, when she was finally sent to West Germany. And even though former Panamanian general Manuel Noriega finished his U.S. prison sentence in 2007, he still remains in jail while the legal system decides whether he should be extradited...
...other means. The U.S. has applied such measures more than 100 times since World War I, against more than 75 countries. President Franklin D. Roosevelt imposed them as a check on Japanese imperialism in 1940, Ronald Reagan leveled them as a way to combat martial law in Poland, and a legion of leaders have used sanctions in recognition of the atrocities perpetuated in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong Il's North Korea and Burma under the military junta...