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...past No. 14 seed St. Joseph’s 7-0. Harvard dropped only one match—one of the three doubles matches—and within its singles play only lost a single set. Rain and other inclement weather created havoc with the scheduling yesterday, and the tenth-place match against Boston College had yet to be played. The only complete results from yesterday morning belonged to the tournament semifinalists. No. 5 Columbia upset the top-ranked Brown Bears to make it to the finals, where the Lions will face No. 2 seed Penn...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: At ECAC Division I Invitational, Harvard Falls to Manhattan | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...roughly 45 sentences in the four pages that were released (around one-tenth of the whole document), most of them make points that have been repeatedly made by the President in his speeches. The White House communications elves underscored that by issuing the latest in a series of fact sheets titled with a hat tip to Paul Harvey: "The Rest of the Story: The NIE Reflects Previous Statements About The War On Terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Fight Over Intelligence May Be a Wash | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...small base, made up of soldiers from the Tenth Mountain 2-4 Infantry, Charlie Company 1-4 Infantry Regiment and Romanian troops from Task Force Calugareni, which took control of Zabul on 31 July when the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took command of southern Afghanistan from the U.S. The mission of the troops at the base is to provide security to the district. Until a few weeks ago that meant daily patrols, visiting villages, checking up on reports of Taliban activity, and generally making their presence known. But these days FOB Maizan has had to limit those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Apache in Taliban Land | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed in the air, flung to the ground and, if they're lucky, escape being trampled by a "big, high-horned buckin' bull" that, as the announcer booms, "has about one-tenth the power of a Mack truck." If they're unlucky, well, there are two paramedics in the front row and an ambulance out the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Buck Stops | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...Gates devised a class-scheduling program so that he could take courses with the prettiest girls ... Teaming up with Paul Allen, a friend and schoolmate, Gates formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000 ... While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped up 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for a nickel each just after South Dakota's George McGovern dumped Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton from the Democratic ticket. They later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

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