Word: six
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Harvard hit its stride early, with junior captain Christine Matera hitting three three-point shots before six minutes had expired in the first half...
...partisanship hasn't stopped with the issue of security. The decision on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Michigan to return a six-count indictment against Abdulmutallab might ordinarily have been a routine step in a criminal prosecution. But it has only stoked the debate over whether Abdulmutallab should have instead been handed over to the military. (See pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...holding on to all 90 of the Yemeni detainees presented a legal problem. Not only would it slow the closure of Gitmo, but the Justice Department concluded that six of the Yemenis under consideration were likely to win cases challenging their detention that they had brought in district court in Washington. Earlier last year, a Yemeni won his case and was repatriated and released. The Defense Department said it was comfortable releasing the six, as were the other departments, so in the end, Obama's national-security team sent them home. It is unclear whether they remain incarcerated in Yemen...
...tide of lower-chamber retirements after four veteran moderate, so-called Blue Dogs announced that they would not run for re-election. Then, instead of a retirement, another Blue Dog - this time Alabama freshman Parker Griffith - jumped ship to the Republican Party. Only a year after celebrating an expected six GOP Senate retirements in 2010 and nearly a dozen in the House (that number is now up to 14), Democrats suddenly find themselves increasingly on the defensive...
...speedboat was "dead in the water" when the Japanese ship, the Shonan Maru No. 2, rammed it. Peter Hammarstedt, the first officer of the Bob Barker, a sister ship of the Ady Gil named after the former Price Is Right host and donor, says that five of the six Ady Gil crew members were on deck waving to the Bob Barker when the whaling ship cut across the Ady Gil's bow, splitting it in two. "It was completely unprovoked," Hammarstedt, who watched the collision from about 200 m away, told TIME. (See pictures of life beneath the Antarctic...