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During the fiscal year ending in 2008, University President Drew G. Faust took home $693,739—a salary that makes Faust the 56th highest paid university president in the country...
Rookies Sydnie Leroy, Shannon Watt, and Meghan Ferreira all notched top-10 finishes in their respective events. Leroy took fifth in the pole vault—second among collegiate entrants—while Watt improved by over a meter since her last competition in the shot put, taking fifth with a throw of 13.33 meters...
Over a month between competitions did not slow the Harvard track team. The Crimson men and women headed to Hanover, N.H. last weekend for the Dartmouth Relays, in which both squads took fourth...
...intended to be held within the Vatican, years of delays and cancellations led Garson to look further afield. At one point the concert was to be held at the U.N. office in Geneva, but that, too, was cancelled, leading him to search in the Middle East. Eventually, his work took him to China, where he believes he was destined to hold the concert all along. "Things happen for a reason," he says...
...There is a precedent for that, but also an unpleasant reminder that al-Awlaki is not the first man brought up in the West - and will surely not be the last - who threw in his lot with jihadists. For in November 2002, one of the first ever drone operations took place in Yemen, killing, among others, Ahmed Hijazi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative. He was an American...