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...sharp growth. But its very success, as sectarian killings are pushing other parts of Iraq toward civil war, could jolt the country's precarious ethnic and political balance by injecting sizable revenues and foreign investment into an area which already has strong desires for independence. Ironically, the first winner isn't an oil giant from the "coalition of the willing" but DNO ASA, a small company traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange. DNO in early 2004 negotiated the rights to drill in about 3,900 sq km, inking the contract in the final week before Iraq's interim government took...
TAMAR GOREGIAN, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding...
...their final tune-up before the Ivy League Championships next weekend, the Crimson men’s golf team turned in its best performance of the short spring season. Harvard finished in a tie for 11th in Providence, R.I. at the New England Division I championships, behind the eventual winner of the tourney, Binghamton. The two-day total of 611 came on the strength of two consistent rounds of 305 and 306. “We now have the younger guys playing better,” senior Tom Hegge said. “Mike [Shore] played well both days, John...
...their frustrating collapses on the biggest of stages pale in comparison to the consistency of Harvard’s crew programs.But enough about success. The trophies and photos enshrined in both Newell and Weld are testament enough to that.Rowing, both on the collegiate and the Olympic level, maintains the winner-take-all element so unique to college sports and so neglected in most of the professional realm. There’s no drawn-out series to watch, no seven-week playoff colossus that dulls the NBA until the Finals. There’s one start, one six-minute race...
...worst idea by far was the “shouting contest” put on by the Crawdads, in which everyone was encouraged literally to yell at the top of their lungs, with the winner getting a free Dominos pizza...