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Complementing the backstrokers, senior Kate Nadeau earned second-team All-Ivy honors for her performance in the 200-yard butterfly, while sophomores Molly Ward and Jane Evans followed up their strong debut seasons with consistent showings in short-distance freestyle, and butterfly and individual medley, respectively, to nab second-team nods. Joining them among the All-Ivy ranks was Alli Bates, who returned from injury to take second in the 100-yard butterfly at the Ivy Championships...
CHANGE THE TONE Behind the scenes, cooperation among spies and cops to nab terrorist suspects has improved, and trade talks have shown a healthy give-and-take. But signs of accommodating Europe on fundamental questions are rare. For instance, Bush scarcely consulted Europe in April before upending decades of U.S. policy to endorse Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to hand over Gaza to the Palestinians without negotiation. To get things back on track, says a former senior British official, "Bush will have to eat some humble pie." One way would be to throw himself into a more obviously...
...Afghan wars in the 1990s, who is suspected of helping to organize a key meeting in Spain between Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 operatives in July 2001. So is AzizI the Madrid mastermind? That's not clear. He was among the six targets who the police failed to nab during the 2001 roll-up of the al-Qaeda cell. According to a Spanish indictment against him last year, Azizi flew to Tehran before the arrests. Investigators lost his trail, even though he came back to Madrid soon after and sold his car. There are unconfirmed reports that he was aided...
Sneddon, 63, who had prosecuted the 1993 case and was none too pleased by its settlement, has been dogged in trying to nab the star. On his HIStory album, Jackson responded to what he considered Sneddon's persecution tactics with the song DS, about a district attorney named Dom Sheldon: "He'll stop at nothing just to get his political say ... You think he brother with the K.K.K.?" When asked if he was trying to sabotage the singer's new CD, Sneddon snarked, "As if I'm into that kind of music...
Every fall, Cornell students line up for days to get hockey tickets, and an away date with Harvard is one of the most sought-after games. Frequently, Big Red fans nab so many tickets that they crowd out Harvard followers, effectively creating what the Lynah faithful like to call, “Lynah East.” The new ticket policy will, at the very least, free up more tickets for Harvard students and prevent the game from being sold out before the season starts...