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...meet of the season, 16-11, to Princeton to open the day, rebounding in the afternoon with a convincing 19-8 victory over Penn. The third-ranked women handily took their opening two matches, winning 21-6 against Cornell and 17-10 against the Tigers, only to get a scare later in the day when the Quakers threatened to deal them their second loss of the season. But the women prevailed in a 15-12 win. The men’s loss could hardly have been closer, as the squad posted 5-4 defeats in the saber and foil with...
...million Amount Turner Broadcasting System and a marketing firm agreed to pay in restitution after a publicity stunt, which involved planting blinking signs for a Cartoon Network show on Boston bridges, sparked a terrorism scare and several days of nonstop media attention...
...school Communist stronghold the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the superpower perpetually on the verge of blowing up (literally and figuratively), now claims the world’s fourth largest economy as well as the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. But the next Red Scare might come not from the PRC, but from our own hemisphere. So much for containment. A new leader, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, is taking a Fidel Castro/Che Guevara approach to government: one part faux-Socialist, one part seriously Communist, one part smokin’ hot. President Castro, fearless...
...learning curve would have to be exceptionally steep if they hoped to upset the surging and perennially talented Michigan squad.While the Crimson did improve by comparison to its previous match, it was overpowered early by the Wolverines, and could not pick up momentum fast enough to put a real scare into Big Blue.“There was significant improvement on the night before,” Fish said, “but [Michigan] was whole different level of team. It has doubles that can stick with anyone in the country.”The Wolverines swept the doubles matches...
Several suspicious packages found in the greater Boston area yesterday prompted a bomb scare that shut down Longfellow Bridge and parts of Interstate 93. The hysteria eased, however, when investigators discovered that the packages were in fact part of an outdoor Turner Broadcasting marketing campaign. The network had placed the packages to promote Adult Swim’s animated television show, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” according to a statement from Turner reported in The Boston Globe. The statement said the packages were “magnetic lights that pose no danger...