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...works as a User Assistant, tutors in Arabic and organic chemistry, is an honorary member of the Society of Arab Students and plays the trumpet, drums and baritone horn in the band. He finds time to relax by watching movies and sleeping on the weekends, with the occasional party thrown in. “I try to make it a policy to get out of Harvard once a week,” he says. “Boston is so full of life...
...modifications don't stop there. "We'll have live targets, something that will make a noise when it's hit," says Roy of the biathlon competition. "And we can have a kangaroo cull. God we're going to have fun." Apparently, the caravan park at Smiggin Holes has been thrown open for the athletes' village, and the local operator of a toilet cleaning business, Dougie Does Dunnies, has promised to provide the cleanest toilets of any Olympic Games in history. Jacques Rogge called the official bid film "very impressive," and the latest good news is that the Kentucky Fried Chicken...
...identification of Saeed was a sorely needed break for Pakistani investigators, coming as it did a week before President Pervez Musharraf was due to visit Washington. Many days had passed with no credible word from the kidnappers, and a series of miscues and hoax e-mails had thrown investigators off. It had become clear to the police that their first suspect, the militant Pir Mubarak Shah Gilani, whom Pearl was expecting to meet when he was abducted, was innocent. Progress came with the arrest last week in Karachi of three men who allegedly e-mailed demands for Pearl's release...
...Crimson was thrown a curveball when the Harvard Athletic Department decided to make aesthetic improvements to Lavietes Pavilion, home of the men’s and women’s basketball teams and, at the time, the baseball team’s only indoor practice facility. Those changes threatened to leave the team without a place to take hitting practice at game speed...
Douthat: But I’m just saying that the people you’re running into in the bathroom, knowing that Cornel West is a bomb-thrower of a sort, their reaction is simply going to be that if a bomb is thrown, well, who throws the bombs most of the time...