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Ginny Shear, 52, of LeRoy, N.Y., a quality-assurance technician for Eastman Kodak, devotes a lot of her spare time to serving as the executive director of the Women's Motorcyclist Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about motorcycling. In 1996 the group started the Pony Express Relay, a national run to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Three such relays have been held; the last, in 2000, drew about 700 men and women and raised $450,000. The next event, scheduled for July, will have participants joining the route at various points from...
...officials tell TIME that no Americans are in the room with the Syrians who interrogate Zammar. U.S. officials in Damascus submit written questions to the Syrians, who relay Zammar's answers back. State Department officials like the arrangement because it insulates the U.S. government from any torture the Syrians may be applying to Zammar. And some State Department officials suspect that Zammar is being tortured...
Case in point: the refusal by the U.S. to relay information provided by French al-Qaeda suspects held at Guantanamo Bay. "First the Americans said they couldn't transfer evidence obtained outside U.S. territory," said the official. "Then they said because Guantanamo is a military base, it's the Defense Department's decision--and that the Defense Department (DOD) considers it top secret. It's a joke." Both the DOD and the CIA refused comment...
HIGHLIGHTS At Ivies, school records are broken by junior Anna Fraser in the 100 fly, freshman Molly Ward in the 100 free, freshman Molly Brethauer in the 200 back, and three Crimson relay teams...
...nearly as competitive on the track. Junior Melissa Tanner, whose 10th-place finish at Cross Country Heps led a Harvard team that placed seventh in the fall, took third in the 5,000-meter run. Co-captain Carrie McGraw placed second in the 400 and helped the 4x400 relay team to a second-place finish. That was all the Crimson could muster on the track, but it was just enough to propel the team to the runners-up slot...