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Sophomore Noah Fabricant topped the Crimson fencers in the saber with a 17th-place finish, while Schmidt led the team with a 12th-place showing in the foil...
Harvard took silver in the women’s foil and qualified three in the foil and one in the epee for the individual championships yesterday, where the top-12 women and men from each of the saber, epee, and foil team events advanced...
...Khemais, also known as Saber, was convicted in Milan late last week of criminal association with the intent to obtain and transport arms, explosives and chemicals. In January, he was convicted in absentia by a Tunisian military court for belonging to a terrorist organization operating overseas. The conviction and five-year sentence for Ben Khemais, who is suspected of heading Osama bin Laden's European logistics operations from Milan, is the first guilty verdict in Europe related to al-Qaeda since Sept. 11. Three other Tunisians received sentences of up to five years from the Italian court...
...historic mission. After 50 years, Taiwan is allowing mainland Chinese tourists to visit. The real change, however, is coming from China, where top Beijing officials invited Taiwan's ruling, pro-independence party to cross the Strait and spoke of opening direct trading links soon. After years of saber rattling, the mainland is recognizing that mean doesn't work in Taiwan, while strong economic ties can keep the island hooked to China like a Club Kid on ketamine. Taiwanese businesses have invested more than $40 billion in the mainland, and China may be ready to return the favor...
...stop-and-go saber rattling was a sign of disagreement among senior Bush officials, there was no doubt that the hard-liners had won again. The "axis of evil" line was in many ways a repudiation of policies that the Administration's lonely moderate, Secretary of State Colin Powell, has championed since the early days of the current presidency. Powell's first major conflict with the White House came last year, when he expressed a desire to continue talks with North Korea begun during the Clinton years. Bush's rhetoric last week made that almost unthinkable for now. Powell...