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...Crimson knew prior to tip-off that to be successful, it was going to have to contain explosive guard Marcus Barnes, who came into the game second in the America East in scoring with 19.2 points per game and third in three pointers made at 2.88 per game, in addition to being on pace to score 597 points this season, which would be the eighth-most in Northeastern history...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Barea's Surprise Appearance Spurs Husky Offense | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...Ghozi slipped out of the cell and walked out of the prison, one contingent of guards assigned to the nominally high-security block had fallen asleep while another detail had been dispatched outside the prison on a shopping mission. Even then, guards could have reacted quickly to a tip-off from another inmate, but they ignored the information about the break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Released | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

...outbreak at Hoping was finally disclosed on April 22, only after President Chen Shui-bian received a tip-off from a friend working at another hospital. But nurse Wang told TIME she first saw patients with SARS-like symptoms at Hoping on April 9. Interviews with eight nurses who were working at Hoping at that time show just how poorly the hospital handled the outbreak. Wang recalls treating two patients with SARS-like symptoms when "all we had for protection were face masks ... I felt like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living on a Prayer | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

When the Crimson players finished shaking hands with the Lions, they hugged en masse in the tip-off circle...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Crowned Ivy Champion | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...houses in Peshawar and Kohat, near the tribal borderlands. In all, the ISI has grabbed about 300 al-Qaeda agents in recent months. Most are Yemenis, followed by Saudis and Palestinians; all were given one-way tickets to the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay. It was an ISI tip-off last month that enabled the feds to put a tracking device on a car that led them to al-Qaeda's chief of operations, Abu Zubaydah?the most damaging blow so far against bin Laden's outfit. The American hunters supply the electronic surveillance and fat rewards for information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogues No More? | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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