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...Black-and-White varsity heavyweights defeated Princeton in the featured match, and assured itself a berth in the NCAA Championships. Radcliffe hopes to cap off its best season in recent memory by improving on last year's NCAA finish. In 1999, Radcliffe's varsity finished sixth at Nationals, and the team placed seventh overall...
...arrived at the Cap Sierra hotel to find an almost surreal scene at the bar. At one end, you had the mercenaries, some of them legendary figure from Africa's wars, back from a day of making war and downing beers and singing "Goodnight, Irene." At the other end were the government people, not sure if they'd live till morning. And in between, a tiny band of journalists. Outside, the city was on fire, and the few people that managed to straggle through the Nigerian lines that stood between us and the rebels bore horrific tales of torture...
According to Buck, many science research grants cap the amount of money professors can earn from teaching over the summer. Forced to stay in the lab, summer school teaching is not an option for such professors...
...NCAA appearance will cap off Harvard's recent ascent in the sport. Once largely unrecognized by the water polo community, the team came a game short of reaching this milestone last year under mid-season replacement Rick Handt...
...anyone tell me the phone number for 911 in Mexico?" Heredia asks. The question draws chuckles. "We don't have a 911 there," a beefy youth in a Raiders cap shoots back. "In the U.S.," Heredia says, "you don't have to break up a fight. The police will do it for you." He explains that "the system here is like a card game. You've got to know the rules to win." Javier, 26, a laborer at Copper Mountain Resort, learned the hard way. He paid a $450 fine--about a week's wages--after he was pulled over...