Word: took
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...team still had to win the final relay, however, to capture the victory. Harvard took the early lead but eventually falling to Pitt's sprinting depth by only a few tenths of a second...
...Last year's meet was much closer," said co-captain Joe Ciollo. "We expected a lot of the same, but the big story was the freshman class. They stepped up and took a lot of points...
...addition, senior Scott Muoio won the 3,000 and sophomore John Kraay took home first place in the shot...
...rocky start to the Senate phase of impeachment was a bad sign for the man who has more at stake than anyone--with the obvious exception of the President. Since he took over as majority leader from Bob Dole in mid-1996, Trent Lott, 57, has not lived up to the widely held expectation that he would assume the role of the G.O.P.'s pre-eminent national leader. More a pragmatist than an ideologue, and more interested in passing legislation than in delivering visionary speeches, Lott has preferred immersing himself in the mechanics of running the Senate to playing...
...Mohamed Rashed al-'Owhali [another suspect in the bombings], we were informed that he is a Saudi from the province of Najd. The fact of the matter is that America, and in particular the CIA, wanted to cover up its failure in the aftermath of the events that took place in Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Capetown, Kampala--and other places, God willing, in the future--by arresting any person who had participated in the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan. We pray to God to end the plight [of the arrested men], and we are confident they will be exonerated...