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...DIED. SIMON CUMBERS, 36, Irish freelance cameraman working for the BBC; from gunshot wounds; in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cumbers covered stories from Omagh to Murmansk and was described by colleagues as a graceful journalist who had a gift for talking his way into sensitive places. With him in Riyadh was BBC correspondent FRANK GARDNER, 42, who survived being shot in the abdomen. The two journalists came under fire while reporting in a neighborhood believed to be a militant stronghold...
...veteran reporter on the global terrorism beat, Frank Gardner knew the dangers facing foreigners in Saudi Arabia when he ventured last week into al-Suwaydi, a Riyadh neighborhood known as a stronghold of Islamic extremists. Gardner, a BBC correspondent, and cameraman Simon Cumbers had arrived in Saudi Arabia a week earlier to cover the aftermath of the May 29 terrorist rampage in the oil-industry city of Khobar, which killed 22. As Gardner and Cumbers prepared to do some filming, a car pulled up alongside them. A man opened fire with a machine pistol, killing Cumbers and leaving Gardner fighting...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
Tsai will be a co-captain next year along with freshman Eric Ode, taking over the men’s alpine duties from current captain Matt Perone. Sophomore Sam Simon, also a Crimson editor who took the fall semester off to work on a political campaign, will be rejoining the team next year...