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Almost three months ago to the day, the Brown men’s hockey team skated into Cambridge and stole Harvard’s season opener 2-0. Yesterday, in a game that featured both physical play and incredible goaltending, the Bears (12-5-4, 10-3-1 ECAC) managed to steal another win from the Crimson (8-10-2, 6-8-1)—this one 2-1 in overtime...
Dapper Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was always a man with a mission--even if it was long shrouded in obscurity. Some 30 years ago, he allegedly stole blueprints for enriching uranium from the top-secret Dutch lab where he worked. For decades, his team in Pakistan labored behind heavily guarded walls to produce enough of the fuel to make A-bombs. In 1998 he watched proudly as Pakistan detonated its first nuclear devices beneath the scorched desert hills of Baluchistan, shocking an unsuspecting world. A public hero at last to exultant countrymen, he was hailed throughout the Muslim world...
...voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America named Eckersley for induction into Cooperstown on January 6. Eckersley is only the third primarily relief pitcher to be elected to the Hall of Fame, following Rollie Fingers and Hoyt Wilhelm. In a week in which Pete Rose stole the headlines in order to try to gain his own election to Cooperstown, Eckersley’s sterling character provides a wonderful contrast...
...never believed previously that people were killed when they stole one potato to stay alive." Khieu Samphan, Cambodia's head of state during the Khmer Rouge regime, who became the first senior leader to admit to widespread killings from...
Harvard was presented with a game-tying opportunity just 20 seconds later, when junior guard Rochelle Bell stole the ball from Pondexter, but Moore’s ensuing jumper bounced...