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Winters argued yesterday that having two candidates from the same town might split the Cambridge vote and give the majority of votes to a contender from another town...
...Pakistani terrorist is reflected in the fact that they typically demand Yousef's release from prison in the U.S. as one of their conditions for freeing Western hostages. After Janjalani was killed in a clash with the Philippine army in 1998, Abu Sayyaf is believed to have split into three rival factions and there is some doubt as to whether the al Qaeda link has been maintained. Indeed, today not only the Philippine government but also the rival MNLF and MILF regard Abu Sayyaf as nothing more than a criminal gang whose primary activity is accumulating funds through taking hostages...
Even though the weekend series against the Ivies’ top two teams resulted in a split, any Harvard fan at the sold-out Lavietes Pavilion Saturday evening would tell you that Harvard looked like the best team in the league. Hot shooting, key defensive stops and poise under pressure all erased the sour memories left from last season’s home weekend, when Princeton’s Kyle Wente hit a miracle three-point shot in the final second to deny the Crimson a sweep...
...Crimson started slowly against Yale as well, but exploded in the third period for four goals, earning a 7-2 victory on Saturday. After the weekend split, Harvard’s record stands at 9-7-1, 4-2-1 in the ECAC North, good enough for fifth place...
...metal detector - while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe - isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete data...