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Player to Watch: Zak DeOssie. All-Ivy pick looks to be second straight Bear to nab Player of the Year honor...
...might think the sheer volume of e-mail would mean you could get away with a crack about the boss's Viagra use. But sophisticated software helps employers, including Merrill Lynch and Boeing, nab folks who traffic in trade secrets or sexist jokes. One called Palisade can recognize data in varying forms, like the content of NFL playbooks, and block them from your Out box. SurfControl, MessageGate and Workshare check work files and e-mail against a list of keywords, such as the CEO's name, a company's products or four-letter words. Wall Street and law firms sometimes...
...arrests and assassinations, Hamas militants kept a cease-fire from March 2005 until last June, when they began firing rockets again and then, on June 25, decided to try another, daring tactic: they emerged from a tunnel dug under the Gaza fence to kill two Israeli soldiers and nab Corporal Gilad Shalit. Instead of talking about a peace deal, the Palestinian Authority found itself dealing with a rain of Israeli bombardments and border incursions...
...through Yale in less than 200 meters to claim the Bulldogs’ bow-ball in the last 500. The Crimson crossed the line in 6:23.08, and Yale followed in 6:26.67. Harvard made up more than six seconds in the final 60 strokes of the race to nab gold, and Wisconsin rounded out the medal winners with a time of 6:31.05. “It was really nerve-racking, since we’ve never rowed from behind before,” said captain six-seat Morgan Henderson. “I think it?...
...Narrow Escape Al-Zarqawi personally decapitates U.S. contractor Nicholas Berg on videotape. In the fall of 2004, a massive U.S.-led operation in jihadi-infested Fallujah fails to nab al-Zarqawi. Some reports suggest he was wounded in the fighting and escaped to Iran...