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...Suddenly, somebody notices bejacketed custodial employees approaching with trash bags, and the excitement mounts. As soon as one of them tears down the previous week’s layers of posters, the first dance begins. Seven or eight eager posterers mob the most coveted spaces—reader boards near Thayer and Harvard Hall. Soon more crowd around, getting more anxious as the virgin brown surfaces vanish from sight. Taken from afar, the untrained observer sees only an orgy of arms and tape, flailing and indistinguishable...
...city had as much use for high-rises "as a hog has for a morning coat." By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday after work. "No restaurants. No nightlife. Nothing," recalls seven-term Republican mayor Pat McCrory. "You could lie down in the street and never have to worry about getting run over." A local planner gained notoriety by proving it was impossible to find a Snickers bar downtown after 5 o'clock...
...Sarah Friedman, who has had her way in enemy territory this season, is the player to watch for the Quakers—and for an early Ivy Player of the Year pick. So far, Friedman has figured into nine of the team’s 11 goals (two goals, seven assists) and leads the league in assists per game. Penn’s mediocre record thus far speaks to the quality of its opponents: the last four teams it had played before Wednesday night’s 3-0 win over UMBC have combined for a .797 winning percentage...
...nine subdivisions evaluated this year, including a newly formed “Student Involvement” category, Harvard earned seven A’s, a B in Transportation, and a C in Endowment Transparency...
...believes that U.S. officials had ordered the arrest of the al-Jazeera cameraman who had recorded the network's October 2001 interview with Osama Bin Laden. Al-Hajj's passport showed that he had been at home in Qatar that month, but he still disappeared into U.S. captivity. Seven months passed before Red Cross officials were able to deliver a letter to Al-Hajj's wife in Qatar - the first proof that her husband was alive. "I am in Guantánamo," the letter read. "I don't know...