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...matchups against Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, and Princeton, the latter clash an ugly 6-1 beating in New Jersey. The nadir surely arrived on Valentine’s Day, when Boston College wrested the Beanpot trophy away from Harvard, which lost, 2-0, despite its hosting privileges and a seven-year monopoly on the tournament hardware.In the ensuing weeks, though, the Crimson initiated the streak that vaulted it from underachiever to upstart and promised big things for 2007. “Looking back, everyone has a lot of positive things to take out of it,” Boe said...
Since he took power in 1979, the Ayatullah has threatened to spread his uncompromising brand of Islamic fundamentalism across the fragile, oil-rich states that line the Persian Gulf and to upset the global balance of power. He has sought his goals openly in Iran's seven-year war with Iraq, and he has promoted them stealthily through terrorist bombings and kidnapings abroad. Now Khomeini's brooding presence loomed larger than ever as he seemed ready, even eager, to take on a host of nations ... The greatest threat to Khomeini's Iran may finally come not from the battlefield...
Administrators have yet to announce the total dollar figure they seek to raise, though they expect it will exceed the last campaign, which ended in 1999 and yielded $2.6 billion. A similar seven-year campaign launched today would reap at least $4.2 billion, based on a higher-education inflation rate of 3.5 percent...
...Qaim on the border with Syria, and Mosul in the north before she was taken back to Baghdad, drugged with pills, dressed in a suicide belt and sent to bomb a cleric's office in Khadamiyah, where she turned herself in to the police. A judge gave her a seven-year jail sentence "for her sake" to protect her from the gang, according to the prison director...
...seen his manuscript and wanted to have breakfast. "Basically what he said was, I've got a lot of stories to tell, and nobody has the resources to tell 'em all, and would I like to talk about a project with him?" That was the beginning of a seven-year partnership, a highly educational one for Gross--he jokes that it's the equivalent of getting an M.F.A. and M.B.A. at the same time. Gross now has a three-book deal...