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...each of the diving events. In the three-meter, senior Luke Sanders came in second with a score of 281.50. In the one-meter, freshman Zac Ranta placed in second with a score of 280.05. In the beginning of the meet, it did not seem like the Crimson would pull off a win. Harvard was unfocused, and the Big Red capitalized on that weakness. “Cornell definitely had a spark in the first half of the meet,” Rathgeber said. “We responded by winning the key races that got us a victory...
...Somali rebels, backed by Eritrea - also has the potential to ignite a larger regional war that engulfs the Horn of Africa. Last week, Ban Ki-Moon expressed serious concern about the military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, while State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to pull back troops from key border areas and use "maximum restraint" to avert...
...state condemned the town to make way for a reservoir to serve the booming metropolis to the south, residents picked up their homes and moved a mile away. Literally. They loaded more than 55 houses and stores onto log rails greased with laundry soap and used horses to pull the buildings to a new town site. The Move, which is commemorated at the Katonah library with a diorama, took six months and is still talked about with pride. "There's this notion that we're not like everyplace else," says Deirdre Courtney-Batson, a historian who lives in Katonah. "People...
...This year the perennial ruckus over little girls' slutty Halloween costumes was still going strong even as the perennial ruckus over the War on Christmas began. It's as though we've supersized our holidays, so that they start sooner, last longer and cost more, until the calendar pages pull and tear, and we don't know which one we are meant to be celebrating...
...that four years ago, in November, Howard Dean was inevitable, and John Kerry was over. "But 40% were undecided going into the last week of the caucus. It'll be the same this time. Hillary is 20% smarter than the guys, but a woman has to be just to pull equal. And I can't stand thinking about what Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are going to do to her. People are just sick of that. They love Obama. He's very inspiring. But in the end, Iowans vote on electability. I hate to say it, but my guess...