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During a required 30-to-60 minute break between the “snatch” and the “jerk,” Clower slumped against a wall and closed his eyes to rest. He breathed through a straw—a trick for slowing respiration that he learned from Tsatsouline. His hands were smeared with chalk...
...expected, the Catamounts didn’t put up much of a fight. Harvard led 7-0 after just one period, by which time Chu had also already netted a hat trick...
Harvard scored four in the second and two in the third for the victory. Nicole Corriero also had a hat trick. Sophomore Kat Sweet had a goal and four assists...
...across nine Italian provinces, closing down an Internet piracy ring with an estimated turnover of over $60 million a year in CDs, DVDs, pornography and high-priced software titles. Investigators say it was one of the largest-ever software piracy busts in Europe. In one instance, police had to trick the pirate before he could delete any data from his hard disk. Police said they dumped pails of water under the door to flood his home. As the suspect ran out to see what was happening, they ran in. Three European countries, 12 suspects nabbed in two busts and tens...
...wheels of diplomacy are greased by many a lubricant: embassy parties, cocktails, rounds of golf. But when commercial treaty negotiations between Townsend Harris, the United States' first consul in Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate bogged down in 1857, a rather more personal angle did the trick: a maid- servant named Okichi for the lonely American. Barbarian comforted, deal clinched...