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With five minutes to go in the third period, Crimson junior defender and captain Angela Ruggiero was called for a 2-minute interference penalty and a 10-minute misconduct. Harvard was thus forced to kill the two-minute penalty and play the next ten minutes, including five of overtime, without the best defenseman in the world. Yet through those ten minutes, the Crimson did more than hold its own, generating some fine chances. Freshman Jennifer Skinner did her part in replacing Ruggiero on defense for that span...
...merchandise--including NBA Cologne in Spain and NBA school supplies in Latin America--is now sold outside the U.S., providing an extra $430 million in annual revenue. And that doesn't include the countless knock-off jerseys with creative team names like the San Jose Bulls that fly off Third World shelves. The NBA is building an NBA City theme restaurant in the Dominican Republic (the other one is in Orlando, Fla.) and is thinking of opening freestanding NBA stores in Asia and Europe. Separate NBA boutiques exist in big department stores like El Corte Ingles in Spain. Nearly...
...agreed that Milosevic "was history" and said he would not intervene to quell any uprising. "He looked bored," Djindjic added. Times have changed. Milosevic is long gone, on trial for war crimes in the Hague. But last week Lukovic, who has since left the special police force for the world of organized crime, allegedly felt Djindjic coming after him - and decided it was time to do something about it. According to Serb officials, the ex-commando ordered the assassination of Djindjic, Serbia's first Prime Minister in the democratic era, to avoid being put in jail himself. The gangland-style...
...Alerts” and “Freedom Fries,” while coming out of us is grim humor and heavy irony. Meanwhile our freedom endures a precipitous rise in CIA funding and the renewed persecution of left-wing groups. A thin pretext for attacking a maligned third-world country is in its refining stages and may be ready for use by the end of the month...
...Omen Citing excessive irrigation and pollution across the globe, the U.N.'s World Water Assessment Program warns that the average water supply per person worldwide could fall by a third...