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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...
...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...
...HUPD officer responded to noise complaints at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon members agreed to lower the volume of their music...
...British economy has come to depend on people like 26-year-old Rebecca Holyhead. She and her boyfriend Dave are about to put down the deposit on their first house. It may not sound like much - a two-bedroom semi-detached that used to be public housing, on the outer fringe of London and far from the Tube - but it's costing them a heady ?150,000, more than three times their combined annual salaries. (She's a nuclear safety engineer; he works in local government. Their parents are pitching in on the deposit.) Though...