Word: semi
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...hyped up and get the adrenaline pumping,” two students who hope to open a restaurant that will serve only pudding, a guy who actually framed his “suitable-for-framing” Harvard acceptance certificate, and quite a few members of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Facing No. 2 Brown and No. 8 Princeton in the semi-finals, however, the Black and White stumbled. Radcliffe was a close third after the 500-meter split, but fell to fifth, a full two boat lengths behind, and never recovered...
...Black and White placed fifth in a time of 7:03.76. The top-three teams in each semi advanced to the Grand Final, while the others were relegated to the Petite Final...
Radcliffe was not the only top team to struggle in the semi-finals. No. 4 Yale and No. 5 Michigan also failed to qualify for the Grand Final...
...drawn there by the Palestinian cause, and by age 18 he was in Gaza as a member of Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s he moved to Afghanistan, and soon Osama bin Laden placed him in the border town of Peshawar, Pakistan. There, Zubaydah acted as a kind of semi-permeable membrane, passing on to al-Qaeda volunteers he deemed acceptable. As a cover, he posed as a honey merchant but nonetheless attracted notice from the Pakistanis, who raided the halfway houses in 1997. Zubaydah fled to Afghanistan, where he took charge of the Khalden camp...