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...booming fast-cash industry: kidnapping. Ralph Charles knows this firsthand. In November he was held for two days in the slum of Cité Soleil, a square mile crammed with 200,000 people and unmanageable crime outside Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. Charles, the owner of a soccer team, says his kidnappers never bothered with disguise. "I'm a big guy with a bad temper, but I kept my cool. They had guns bigger than me. They have lots of them," he says. The ring has hundreds of collaborators, including teenagers, and they get what they want. Charles shelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kidnapping an Election | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...because many members of our community will be leaving,” Hattier wrote. Tulane is also cutting eight athletic programs: men’s track, men and women’s tennis, men and women’s golf, women’s swimming, women’s soccer, and men’s cross-country. “I was on the Tulane University track team as a shot putter,” William Y. Ke, a visiting Tulane freshman, wrote in an e-mail. “Unfortunately I won’t be able to compete...

Author: By Sharlene Brown | Title: Tulane Cutbacks Irk Displaced Students | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

Ayodola A. Adigun ’06 didn’t think of herself as much of a dancer when she came to Harvard. She’d been doing ballet for 10 years, but her heart wasn’t really in it. She was a star soccer player, not a twinkle-toed ballerina. Then, she saw a music video by Sean Paul, and everything changed. Smiling, Adigun settles into a Dunster dining room couch, remembering her first semester of her freshman year. “I remember the day. It was a Sean Paul, ‘Give...

Author: By Kyle A. Magida, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Reggae Revolution | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

...adventures outside the UC, like grueling military training expeditions in the Norwegian mountains without food for five days, have given him the leadership skills and fortitude to get things done. Similarly, Hadfield, a UC outsider, draws his skills from past experiences such as his creation of the first commercial soccer website, soccernet.com, when he was 12 years old. He says his entrepreneurial experience founding several subsequent websites and programs will help the ticket accomplish its goals if elected. He adds that at Harvard he has proven his ability to accomplish tasks that are similar to what he would face...

Author: By Doris A. Hernandez and Kyle A. Magida, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: UC Outsiders Seek Change | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

...just a regular football game,” Fitzpatrick said. It’s been a busy few weeks for the 2004 Ivy Player of the Year, who turned 23 on Thanksgiving and last week became engaged to his college girlfriend, former Crimson women’s soccer captain Liza Barber ’05. The circus may continue if he gets the start for the Rams this Sunday against the Washington Redskins. Martin’s status post-concussion remains uncertain, though interim Rams coach Joe Vitt has not confirmed his starter. “It?...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Stage, Same Story for Fitzpatrick | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

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