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...Commissiong also recruited New England, New York, and Canada for Harvard while serving as the team’s pro liason. Special teams and linebackers coach John Butler is leaving for the same position at Minnesota as part of Tim Brewster’s new staff. After arriving from Southwest Texas State, Butler spent the last four seasons at Harvard, handling recruiting for Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He coached four first-team All-Ivy selections at linebacker during his tenure in Cambridge, including senior captain Ryan Tully this season. Harvard has not yet announced replacements for the departing...
...students threatened to kill me if I didn't graduate them, because I don't wear a head scarf," says a female engineering lecturer from Baghdad's University of Technology, one of hundreds who packed an Iraqi church service in the industrial town of Södertälje, southwest of Stockholm. Ali Hamid, a 33-year-old Shi'ite ophthalmologist, had a scrawled death threat slipped under his door; he fled last month, leaving behind his wife and two children. Raya, the maternity doctor, says her family decided to leave when her brother found a note tucked under...
DIED. Lamar Muse, 86, fiery, outspoken first leader of Southwest Airlines who, through a series of bold, often witty marketing innovations, turned the fledgling, debt-ridden company into a successful competitor; in Dallas. Skirting federal regulations on interstate travel by operating within Texas, he famously slashed fares (flights between several key cities were $20); dressed flight attendants in hot pants; and, to beat a competitor trying to horn in on his cheap prices, kept the low fare--and threw in a free bottle of whiskey...
...conservative think tanks here about the Iranian threat - a desperate attempt to change the subject from Iraq. This is a dodge that is working almost perfectly, especially in that it never concedes that Iran is a growing regional power now in part because the fiasco in Iraq deprived southwest Asia of its previous balance of power...
...create a reservoir holding 20 billion gal. of water. South Korea charges that if the dam should ever collapse or be demolished by the North, the resulting flood would be a disaster. Thundering down the Han River valley, the water would quickly reach Seoul, 80 miles to the southwest, threatening the lives and property of millions...