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Nearly two minutes after the first strike, freshman Alexandra Conigliaro maneuvered the ball past the Cornell defense and played a through-ball into the possession of Sheeleigh, who completed the play to double Harvard’s lead...
Later on, the home team clawed back to tie it at 18-18, but another successful strike from Ono Horn prevented Columbia from taking its first lead in the frame. From there, freshman Taylor Docter unleashed four kills to propel Harvard to a 25-20 victory...
...hour siege of its military headquarters that left 25 people dead over the weekend, the Taliban struck again. In the fourth major attack in eight days, a suicide bomber killed 41 people in a marketplace near Swat on Monday, underscoring the militants' enduring ability to strike across the country...
...have been involved in fighting the Pakistan army, says Rana. South Waziristan has served as one base and training ground. The Punjabi groups have also appeared in the Bajaur tribal area where, after claiming victory months ago, the Pakistan air force dispatched fighter jets on Monday to strike against a creeping return of the Taliban. Two of the splinter groups were also recently involved in fighting in the Swat Valley; after being scattered in that offensive, says Rana, they are now regrouping in southern Punjab. (Read "In Pakistan's Swat Valley, Testing Life After the Taliban...
Britain is crawling with so-called metal detectorists, who make a hobby - and often an obsession - out of unearthing treasure from the country's rich past. Occasionally they strike gold, like Terry Herbert, a 55-year-old Staffordshire man who, it was announced Sept. 24, discovered more than 11 lb. of Anglo-Saxon gold on a farm north of Birmingham. But mudlarks, who consider themselves élite archaeologists, tend to view treasure seekers with disdain. While anyone can obtain a permit to search the five or so miles of the river's southern foreshore between Westminster and Wapping...