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...never taken a drink of alcohol until my freshman year of college,” Franken says. “My roommate and I split a bottle of scotch and got so drunk and I fell down the stairs and broke my glasses...
...Afghanistan the remaining al-Qaeda fighters have split into small groups. Since March, when U.S. troops engaged a large al-Qaeda force during Operation Anaconda, there have been few significant battles--and even in Anaconda the body count was far lower than the hundreds the Pentagon at first claimed to have killed. Three operations led by the British Royal Marines in eastern Afghanistan this spring ended without snaring the enemy. "Countrywide," says an intelligence source in Kabul, "it's probably safe to say there are no groups of armed Taliban and al-Qaeda bigger than 60." But that doesn...
Widener Library underwent $300,000 worth of internal improvement during the course of the summer. Fluorescent lighting will illuminate the dimness out of its dusky innards. Its classic staircase is now split by a railing and some sections are lined with treads. Its elevators have been modernized. All of the bills were paid for by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences which each year shells out about $1,000,000 to keep the massive library in operation...
Facing No. 2 Brown and No. 8 Princeton in the semi-finals, however, the Black and White stumbled. Radcliffe was a close third after the 500-meter split, but fell to fifth, a full two boat lengths behind, and never recovered...
...from the 1997 level of 75. Such triangulaire battles will pit the National Front against rivals from the Socialist Party led by François Hollande and the rightist groupings under the newly re-elected President Jacques Chirac. But a strong showing from the National Front could split the vote for the right, allowing the Socialists to capture parliament. That would saddle Chirac with another five years of cohabitation, during which he would be virtually powerless to influence the domestic issues on which he campaigned: security, sweeping tax reductions and business-friendly economic reform. To prevent that, Chirac's allies...