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...with a home run, but rookie reliever Jonah Klees, who had entered the game for Zailskas with two outs in the sixth, quickly retired the next two batters. But Klees then walked the following two hitters and was relieved by Stack-Babich.The game’s eventual hero, though, was almost its goat, allowing the Tigers to climb all the way back and even the score.Harvard went down in order in the frame’s bottom half, and the game headed to extra innings tied, 8-8.Neither team was able to score until the 13th inning, when sophomore Daniel Berardo relieved...
Awwww. Turns out they are kinda cute. Almost makes Flyby wish we had a prefrosh of our own. Almost...
...truth is, Kim Jong Il and the regime he heads can live without subjecting North Koreans to revolutionary ditties from space. Yesterday's launch, from the North's standpoint, was an almost unequivocal success, even if the satellite now sleeps with the fishes. Diplomatic and intelligence sources in Seoul and Tokyo contend that Pyongyang's biggest aim was to increase the range of its Taepodong II rocket. In 1998 it launched a predecessor that traveled about 1,060 miles (1,700 km). On July 4, 2006, another long-range rocket broke apart shortly after launch. Yesterday's rocket flew more...
...China's reaction to the launch was almost nonchalant, as if its diplomats couldn't be roused to work on a pleasant spring Sunday. In effect, Beijing said, Let's move along, folks - nothing to see here. The Foreign Ministry, in fact, issued a statement calling on other nations not to do or say anything that would upset international "peace and stability" - as if Pyongyang's launch had not already done...
...until now he has eluded capture in his jungle hideaways and, reportedly, on occasional clandestine trips to other parts of the region. "He is surrounded by the army," says Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, previously known as Colonel Karuna when he served as the LTTE's eastern military commander. "It is now almost impossible to escape undetected. All the top Tiger leaders are still very much in the Vanni [the region where the fighting is taking place]." Muralitharan defected from the Tigers in 2004 and formed a breakaway faction that supports the government...