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Growing up in pigskin-obsessed Winchester, Ohio, Sean Tracy relished playing high school football on Friday nights before capacity crowds of spirited fans. A three-year starter, he excelled on offense, defense and special teams...
...events, which occurred over a three-year span, included “making inappropriate comments with sexual connotations to students at the Dudley House Co-op, misrepresenting his relationship with the Harvard Security guards and the Committee Against Sexual Violence at Harvard....culminating with Mr. Herms’ solicitation of students to work for him by drinking alcoholic beverages with university police officers...
Smashing into the Utah desert at nearly 200 m.p.h. was no way to end a space mission, but that's just what the GENESIS spacecraft did last week. After a three-year flight to collect samples of the solar wind, Genesis was supposed to re-enter the atmosphere, deploy its parachutes and be snagged in midair by a Hollywood helicopter pilot. But the chutes failed to open. NASA scientists believe some samples may nonetheless have survived intact...
...does the Howard-Costello partnership measure up on these points? Is it looking beyond the three-year election cycle? Although some may grumble about the 10% goods and services tax introduced in 2000, it was a necessary adjustment and modernization of the tax system that required bureaucratic toil and a willingness to take political risks, but not great courage or imagination. Reforming wage bargaining and introducing user-pays for education and health across the board have been done gradually. A fairly benign, mainly symbolic, deal such as the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. is a metaphor for the Howard...
...Erdogan announced he would press ahead with a new law banning adultery. "The family is a sacred institution for us," he said in a newspaper interview. The measure is scheduled to be included in a package of amendments to be introduced this week. It would impose up to a three-year prison term on men or women found guilty of sexual intercourse with someone other than their lawful spouse. Verheugen was not impressed. "Turkey should not give other countries the impression that it's putting Islamic elements into its legal system," he told the newspaper Vatan. Parliament is expected...