Word: roundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...taken a frenzied round of calls between Frankfurt, New York, Washington and Ottawa to nab the passengers before they slipped through J.F.K.'s immigration hall. But the list of stolen passports against which they were checked hailed from another place entirely: a modern, five-story building in Lyons, France, which is the global headquarters of Interpol...
...what happened in New York?'" Noble recalls. He hadn't. He turned on CNN just in time to see the second plane hit the World Trade Center. "That's when we knew the world had changed for Interpol," he says. "We went 24/7 that day." Noble immediately instituted round-the-clock monitoring of news and e-mails from a command and coordination center two floors below his office - a sharp break from Interpol's previous working hours. That room is now the center of Interpol's nervous system: rotating teams, which include Arabic and African staff, field calls for help...
...didn’t do anything to match the intensity that they had. It wasn’t Harvard basketball out there. It was just bad.”The win puts Cornell (15-6, 7-1 Ivy) in sole possession of first place going into the second round of Ivy play. The Big Red beat Harvard for the first time in four years, paced by the torrid shooting of guard Gretchen Gregg—the nation’s leading three-point shooter at 48 percent from beyond the arc—and a ferocious effort on the offensive...
...really tough competition going in,” freshman J. Reed Endresen said. “But I think the weekend went well.” In its first match of the tournament, the Crimson earned a victory against Western Ontario. Harvard quickly took the lead in the first round, when No. 3 freshman Richard Hill, No. 6 Endresen, and No. 9 sophomore Alastair Smith all quickly beat their Mustang Opponents, 3-0. Two more victories came from freshman Eliot Buchanan—who played the fifth seed—and junior Niko Hrdy, who played the fourth seed...
...Barack Obama builds momentum in post-Super Tuesday states, it is important to remember that the sporting event most analogous to what we are witnessing is not a horse race. Think rather of a fifteen- round boxing match. The fact that one fighter may be more bloodied at the end may not matter if he (or she) is still standing and has the same or more points over fifteen rounds...