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Much of what transpired on Monday, March 13, at 610 North Buchanan is still unknown or in dispute. What is not is that late that evening, between 30 and 40 members of the Duke lacrosse team gathered at the off-campus house shared by three of the co-captains. The featured entertainment: a pair of black strippers hired for $800 by one of the co-captains using a false name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Twists in The Case | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...Iraqi aid workers about girls being kidnapped and sold to brothels. "Unfortunately, the security situation doesn't allow us to follow up on this." The U.S. State Department's June 2005 trafficking report says the extent of the problem in Iraq is "difficult to appropriately gauge" but cites an unknown number of Iraqi women and girls being sent to Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf countries for sexual exploitation. Statistics are further made murky by tribal tradition. Families are usually so shamed by the disappearance of a daughter that they do not report kidnappings. And the resulting stigma of compromised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Away | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...hill near the town--apparently the building blocks of the first ancient step pyramid ever found in Europe. Archaeologist Semir Osmanagic estimates the pyramid is 722 ft. high--a third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza--and was built about 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilization. Other experts are skeptical. "More likely," says UCLA archaeologist Willeke Wendrich, "this is a case of Europeans around 6 A.D. with a bit of Egyptomania." Visoko's people see the pyramid, authentic or not, as a marketing opportunity. Mugs, key chains and slippers, left, are available. One of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia's Pyramid Scheme | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...like an arbitrator and an umpire,” Sagnella said. “And that’s not our job, we’re trustees.” According to the New Haven pension fund chairs, the amount of money invested in the blacklisted companies is unknown, but it is likely to be small. “We’re unaware [of the quantity], if it’s there we feel it’s a minimal amount,” Kottage said...

Author: By H. max Huber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Haven Divests From Sudan | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...might mean little or nothing to the average Harvard sports fan right now, but in less than a year, she could be in the middle of a mid-ice pile as the Crimson skaters celebrate a national championship. Who knows? The sky is most definitely the limit for these unknown, but obviously talented, recruits.How about football, a sport in which recruiting is as highly publicized nationally as any other? Some 250-pound 17-year-old who has just recently received his acceptance letter could become the cornerstone of a dominant Ivy championship squad in 2009. Why, just three years...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE GIFT OF GAB': Recruiting Drama Has Place in Ivy League | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

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