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...With the crew of the Alabama safe, their thoughts remained with Phillips, who is still being held captive in a lifeboat off the coast of Somalia. In circumstances that are still unclear, he got into the lifeboat with the pirates after the crew retook control of the ship from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijacked Ship Back in Port, Its Captain Still a Hostage | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...offense amped up its tempo down the stretch and grabbed an 11-10 lead with two minutes to go. The Crimson had one last opportunity to tie the game up with 34 seconds remaining. Zdrojewski got the ball inside to MacLaughlin, but a defender forced her to foul. Brown retook possession and waited out the clock to take the 11-10 victory. “Brown-Harvard is a classic rivalry, so it always brings out a higher level in each team,” Farrar said. “They did a good job of closing the deal...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Wins Two, Drops Two in Full Slate | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

This year, almost 900 first-year students at Baylor University in Texas retook their SATs. No, this was not a grading mistake. It was because Baylor wanted to boost its ranking in U.S. News and World Report’s list of “Best Colleges.” Baylor incentivized freshmen with $300 at the campus bookstore to retake their SATs and offered $1,000 a year in scholarship aid to those who raised their scores by at least 50 points. Though seemingly cavalier and unethical, programs like this are products of the bizarre and destruction nature...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Blame Game | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...kind of short, and the receivers did the rest of the way.”Things slowed in the third quarter, as Cornell used a 15-play, 64-yard, 7:17 drive to set up its only score of the frame, a 25-yard field goal, but Harvard retook its three-touchdown lead with a 35-yarder of its own.Dorris led the team in tackles with 11 (five unassisted) and added a second-quarter interception tipped by sophomore defensive back Collin Zych, who had nine tackles of his own. Senior cornerback Andrew Berry matched Zych’s defensive output...

Author: By Ricky Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Back on Track with Ivy Victory | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

Crocker assured Congress that we are making progress. The Iraqi government retook the port of Basra that week, Iraq's main export terminal. And now that the government is in full control of Iraq's oil infrastructure things will get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Iraq Oil Card | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

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