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...already defeated the Crimson twice this season.“This is the weekend we train for all year,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “We played the toughest schedule in our team’s history, and I think it made us tougher as the year wound down. After weeks of laborious cross-country excursions, Harvard’s first extended break of the season afforded the team with much-needed rest in preparation for its final weekend. The rest paid off well, as the Crimson upset Johns Hopkins in the first round...
More than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to the west, in the Angolan capital Luanda, another entrepreneur, Adrito Cassolongo, faces far tougher prospects. As a young man, he taught himself English and wangled a job with the U.N. Then, with a civil war raging, he caught a plane to South Africa, where he slept rough on the streets of Pretoria before becoming a boxer and earning $30 a week. In the evenings, he taught English to other Angolans, then built his own computers from spare parts and used them to set up a computer-training school. Today Cassolongo...
...expected to adopt a law later this year that will make manufacturers maintain stricter records on raw materials and make it easier for Pahamin's agents to stage surprise raids. Other reforms will provide for specially trained prosecutors and judges in copyright-violation cases and will ensure that tougher penalties actually get applied. The U.S. industry, which claims it lost $287 million in CD sales to piracy last year in Malaysia alone, is lobbying with the U.S. Trade Representative for tough action against the country. "More investment in Malaysia is greatly dependent on the rate of piracy coming down," says...
...Every gift handmade by elves." That's the motto at the North Pole. Just about everyone but the Claus family security force is undersize. Midgets (mostly from Russia) man the assembly lines. The village's Security Force comprises three dwarfs who look like Munchkinland's Lollipop Guild, but tougher; they're the Blackwater of little people...
...test in Crawford, where Merkel, known in Germany as the Queen of the Backroom for her softly-softly negotiating style, is expected to warn Bush about the "catastrophic" consequences of a military strike on Iran. Bush, for his part, will urge the European leader to pursue tougher economic sanctions against Tehran, regardless of whether the U.N. Security Council follows suit. Germany has significant trade ties with Iran and has until now resisted pressure to ratchet up sanctions outside of the U.N. framework...