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...been held each year for the past decade. The competition involved two individual rounds, a team round, and a “gut round,” where teams work 12 sets of three problems. The score is automatically updated and publicized each time a team rushes to turn in a set and receives a new one. “The gut round is probably unique to our tournament,” said Yi Sun ’09, a co-tournament director, who compared the round to Jeopardy. “The room becomes unbelievably hectic...
...drubbing of Columbia—and the 13-3 Bulldog win over the Bears, for that matter—come as sweet relief for a Harvard team that hasn’t had any win come easy, the satisfaction can’t last long, as the Crimson must turn right around to prepare for its next opponents. “We’ll play the two best defensive teams along with us the next two weeks,” Murphy said. “So right now, we got a lot guys dinged up, very physical football game...
...bodies were returned on Sunday to their hometowns, where they were greeted by emotional crowds and heavy security, but no major outbreaks of violence were reported. Organizations like Amnesty International and other human rights groups had opposed the executions on humanitarian grounds and out of concern that they would turn the extremists into heroes; already other militants have called the bombers "holy warriors." "The possibility of martyrdom is a highly contested idea but only the fringe groups will see their deaths as mati syahid," explains Masdar Hilmy, using the Indonesian term for martyrdom...
...health and strength, her legs still quivered slightly as she ran. Slowly, as though led by a will stronger than her own, Roxanna found herself drawn away from the Florentine villa into the trees and toward the river. It was late afternoon, and the summer air had begun to turn to the evening’s coolness. The sun’s slanting rays caused the leaves and the white bark of the birches to shine. The Stable’s Boy’s spade, plunging horribly—endlessly!—into the fertile earth...
...company's earnings were "insufficient to cover fixed charges" by $80.1 million. This gaping shortfall, astonishing for a company that was throwing off more than $600 million in free cash flow annually just three years ago, could trigger defaults on its $8.8 billion in long-term loans. That, in turn, could jeopardize Las Vegas Sands' ability to continue "as a going concern," according to the filing. (See 10 Things to Do in Singapore...