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Elizabeth Gilbert does these reluctant wives one better. The author of Eat, Pray, Love returns with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Viking; 285 pages), in which she is a vehemently wary second-time bride, due to be dragged down the aisle by Uncle Sam's immigration henchmen, who will otherwise toss her beloved, Brazilian-born "Felipe," as she calls the older man she met in the last section of EPL, out of the U.S. for good. They hadn't planned to marry. Like Gilbert, Felipe had endured a hard divorce, and they were content to be "lifers" together...
According to passengers arriving from Amsterdam, where Nigerian "undie bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab sneaked through security, a new, second checkpoint at the gate included a magnetometer, body searches and checks of all carry-on luggage, pushing takeoff an hour past its scheduled time. "I've never seen it like this," said Agne Kveslyte, a Lithuanian student. "They were opening up really tiny items I had, even my wallet." Once on the plane, passengers were not allowed to congregate near the lavatories or pass between different sections of the plane. (See the top 10 news stories...
Passengers arriving from other destinations reported at least some extra security, such as pat-downs or second checkpoints at their departure gates. Coming from Paris, Laurent Mellier said he passed through "two [security] checkpoints instead of one, but nobody was complaining. The only complaint was that it was a very big line. But the staff was very professional. And everybody understands." At the same time, Mellier said the extra scrutiny did not make him feel significantly safer...
Harvard's final victory before its Ivy opener Saturday against Dartmouth did not come easily, as the Crimson struggled to put away a resilient Santa Clara squad that refused to fold in the second half...
...been a problem for Harvard all year, turnovers plagued the visiting offense. Lin ended up with four, and seven others had at least two, for a total of 20 giveaways—which led to 15 points for the opposition in the second half alone...