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...even those statistics don’t tell the whole truth. Crimson coach Tim Murphy would, rather than send out his special teams for the gridiron equivalent of Russian roulette, take his chances with his offense on fourth down or attempting a two-point conversion...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Special Kicker’ Bolsters Special Teams | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...grouped around an address well known to the pedophile-hunting policeman: the place where a 13-year-old boy had gone missing seven months earlier. Each mark represented the home of a previously unknown suspected pedophile, traced from the data banks of a child pornography company run by the Russian mafia in eastern Europe. "We thought we knew where all the sex offenders were in that area," says Rouse. "We had missed these. These were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In Their Own Web | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

...company best known for administering the SAT, keeps creating new AP courses and exams. Back in 1955, when AP was introduced, there were 11 courses. By 1990 there were 29. Today there are 34, ranging from Music Theory to Computer Science. Next fall there will be three more: Italian, Russian and Chinese. It's a booming business for the nonprofit College Board, which sells teaching guides and seminars to instructors, study guides and practice exams to students, and charges $82 for an AP exam. (Much of this covers the costs of paying high school teachers and college professors to grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Smart Is AP? | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...final IAEA inspection and the arrival of U.S. troops. But a Pentagon spokesman admitted he had no idea what kind of activity took place or even if the trucks were in an area where HMX, RDX and PETN were stored. Then a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense suggested that Russian units may have removed the weapons shortly before the invasion, but other Administration officials quickly slapped down the notion that Moscow had anything to do with it. Finally, the Pentagon introduced Army Major Austin Pearson, who said his unit, the 24th Ordnance Company, removed and destroyed between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Did the Weapons Vanish? | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...this 40-year-old woman on her line. And I was like ‘drop it!’ and she clearly doesn’t know what drop it means because she doesn’t speak English. And she’s yelling at me in Russian...

Author: By Carrie H. Petri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ambassadors of the Game | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

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