Word: tigers
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...business started with what is known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house...
...close game in Harvard’s favor—is uncanny. He’s small, but he’s quick as greased lightning, and rarely does a bruising hit slow him down. And Friday night against Princeton, a game that saw the Tigers claw their way back after every goal Harvard scored, Du did it all. He gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead midway through the first period with a crease deflection. He put his team up 3-2 with under a minute remaining in the second frame with a close-range rebound. And midway through...
...decades, Sri Lanka lived with war, as the Tigers fought for a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island. Now, after a four-year cease-fire, many fear it is drifting back into full-blown conflict. Norwegian facilitators have persuaded the Sinhalese government and the Tigers to meet in Geneva later this month, the first time the two sides have come together in three years. The sole item on the agenda is to discuss better implementation of a cease-fire agreement, signed in Feb. 2002, but which is now on life support. "There will be some pretty...
...Tigers deny responsibility for recent attacks on the army, blaming them on spontaneous Tamil uprisings. Tiger political chief S.P. Tamilchelvan says the Sri Lankan army and its paramilitary squads have provoked such unrest. The Northeast Secretariat on Human Rights, which receives some funding from the Tigers but is reputed for its independence, has recorded the death of more than 70 Tamil civilians since Rajapakse's election, killed by the army or plainclothes death squads. The killings include the execution-style shooting of five Tamil students, the assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian in church on Christmas Eve, and the murder...
...overtime period against Princeton at the Bright Hockey Center, with the score knotted at four apiece, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 had to choose which of his skaters was going to take a penalty shot—retribution, in other words, after a Tiger was whistled for delaying the game. It wasn’t a hard choice. “Duuuuuuuuuu,” the Bright Hockey Center crowd chanted in unison: “Du! Du! Du!” Only when Donato sent pivot Kevin Du onto the ice for the shot...