Word: 10th
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...dying there for the past 14 months. "You know the saying: that all politics is local. Well you really see that playing out here. This is the capstone of the first phase of tribal reconciliation in the region," said Col. Mike Kershaw, the commander of the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, the Fort Drum, New York-based unit which has worked among some 400,000 mostly Sunni Iraqis in the southern portion of Baghdad Province since last year. "Am I saying the war's over? No way. But I am saying that this is an opportunity that we didn...
...team and the No. 4 women’s team with much to prove.YALE WOMEN’S INTERSECTIONALOn Saturday and Sunday, the Bulldogs hosted the Yale Women’s Intersectional, a 22-team regatta with a combined 12 races. Harvard finished tied for 10th overall in a very competitive field.“I think our goal was to do a little better than we finished,” said junior women’s captain Megan Watson.In the face of inconsistent wind conditions, Harvard never seemed to get comfortable.In A-division, skipper Watson and freshman crew Meghan...
...unlikely new 10th-grader arrived on the campus of Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts. He was Abdullah ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and scion of the Hashemite dynasty, the onetime princes of Mecca and currently the ruling family of the kingdom of Jordan. Now known as His Majesty King Abdullah II, he points to the years spent as a member of the academy's class of 1980 as the most formative of his life. Deerfield introduced Abdullah to a much broader range of friends than is normally available to young Arab princes, and the character-building crucible...
Still, a united front won't always be enough to eclipse StatoilHydro's biggest rivals. After the megamergers of the late 1990s - such as Exxon with Mobil and BP with Amoco - the Norwegian firm ranks as only the 10th largest in the world in production. StatoilHydro might churn out 1.9 million bbl per day, but that's less than half the daily output...
...Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division, said the locally organized Sunni groups have already driven al-Qaeda out of the urban areas and into a rough no-man's land to the north, sandwiching them precariously between his paratroopers and elements of the 10th Mountain Division. In and around Musayyib to the south, the Shi'ite groups have manned checkpoints along roadways that once hid bombs. Since late July, roughly about the time the militias started working, no one has attacked the paratroopers there...