Word: wiring
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...Crimson’s negative momentum, Harvard knocked off No. 14 Northeastern to reach the Beanpot final for the first time since 1998. While seventh-ranked Boston College would not allow the Crimson to take its first Beanpot title in 15 years, Harvard battled the Eagles down to the wire, falling only in overtime...
...walk to or from. And that was the point. There hadn't been this many Americans on North Korean soil since the Korean War, and our hosts plainly didn't want us mingling. When I later groused about it to a colleague posted to Pyongyang for the Russian wire service Itar-Tass, he chuckled: "Do you know what foreigners here call your hotel? Alcatraz. It's difficult to get into - and even harder to leave...
...It’s very relieving, that’s pretty much how we all feel,” Lin said. “All of the games we’ve been losing have come down to the last two minutes, come down to the wire, and finally we were able to pull one out. It’s big for our confidence, and it shows a lot about this team not giving up.”—Staff writer Kevin C. Reyes can be reached at kreyes@fas.harvard.edu...
...current U.N. mission in Baghdad is tiny. Their cramped offices are located at the end of a series of concrete and razor-wire-lined streets in the Green Zone, accessed through Fijian, Peruvian and Ugandan checkpoints. Meanwhile, UNICEF, the U.N.'s children's aid organization, is the most conspicuously absent. Others, such as the World Health Organization, UNHCR (the U.N.'s refugee agency) and the U.N. Development Programme have between zero and three people in Baghdad at any given time. The security alert for the office is at level four, one stage before evacuation...
...bomb blast in a Damascus suburb, the Shi'ite Hizballah organization's television channel, Al Manar, broadcast a more recent picture of Mughniyah. It showed a plump, middle-aged man wearing combat fatigues and a forage cap and sporting a thick beard streaked with grey. His wire-framed spectacles gave him a benign, almost professorial, look, belying the fact that Mughniyah stood accused of killing more Americans than any other militant before the attacks of September...