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...time leader in three-point makes, a record he set in a win over Harvard two years ago. Saturday will also mark the collegiate debut of Maine redshirt freshman Junior Bernal, a highly-regarded guard who averaged 23 points, six rebounds and six assists in high school. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m at Lavietes Pavilion. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard...
...much rather sound like the other 98% of the country. As a preliminary exercise, he has me read Christina Rossetti's poem Remember. His verdict? "Two vowels betray your background." My clenched and elongated [an error occurred while processing this directive]"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff. So why don't I want to sound privileged? For starters, I'm not. I'm just plain middle class, but I talk as if my family live in a stately home and don't have to work. My ancestors were mainly teachers, vicars...
...harder, in fact, to catch a poacher than a tiger. Typically, says Desai, who has spent a decade chasing poachers and pelt dealers across the central Indian state of Maharashtra, the hunt begins with a tip-off from informants or rival dealers. Then you arrange a pelt showing. When the dealer unfurls his roll of pelts, you sniff each skin to check its quality. After that, you arrange the buy-in the midst of which the police pounce, arresting the dealer. This hunt can take months, only to be followed by the legal battle, which can take years...
...theft might have gone unnoticed but for an anonymous tip-off to a government official in Usak, the town in western Turkey where the artifacts originated and were housed in a small museum. By the time officials had called in experts to authenticate the artifacts, the objects were long gone, disappearing via middlemen in Istanbul into a global smuggling network, culture ministry officials said. Interpol is on their trail...
...connected to the raid were detained in Kent. Dixon's Nissan was found at the Cock Horse pub, and a red van that the gang is thought to have used turned up at another inn, the Hook and Hatchet. (We are not making this up.) On Friday, following a tip-off - that big reward talking, maybe - the police picked up yet another van in the car park of the disappointingly named Ashford International Hotel, this one with cash inside it. Two days after the Securitas job, there was a copycat raid in Belfast, where a gang held a bank employee...