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...shared the house for seven years, doing little apart from studying. Gradually, they began to despair. They took risks, Jenkins says, that they knew could lead to death. In his amused telling today, their escapades sound almost as if they could be ripped from the pages of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?except that the punishment for getting caught would not be a few lashes with a belt from Aunt Sally but execution...
RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the plainspoken former New York City police commissioner who helped guide the city during the Sept. 11 attacks and was a vocal supporter of George W. Bush's re-election...
...RETIRED. TOM BROKAW, 64, anchor of NBC's Nightly News; after 21 years; in New York City. Brokaw, who was promoted from the morning Today show in 1982, helped propel NBC to the top of the ratings, where it has remained since 1997. He also found success as an author with the 1998 best-selling book The Greatest Generation, which celebrated World War II veterans. Brokaw signed off his last newscast by telling viewers: "Thanks for all that I have learned from you. That's been my richest reward...
Indeed, Reese earned an assist on the first Harvard goal of the season, a Tom Cavanagh tally. Two games later, the sophomore notched the Crimson’s lone goal against Colgate, just the team’s third strike of the year. Since then, he’s boosted his overall scoring total to six, courtesy of three goals and three assists...
With defensemen Tom Walsh and Ryan Lannon skating one behind the other to his left, Maki faked a pass to Walsh out in front, then dumped the puck to Lannon. He in turn slipped past the remaining defender and guided his shot through Alford’s pads to give Harvard a 2-0 lead 9:27 into the second...