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West swept through the first two rounds of the tournament relatively easily, although he admitted that his level of play was lower than he would have liked...
...Crimson got the first shot on goal just under three minutes in, but Clarkson netminder Lauren Dahm made the easy save. And although Harvard held the Golden Knights shotless for the first six minutes of the game, Clarkson capitalized on its first opportunity...
...Although the Crimson will return north, the team will still have to find away to win on the road, as its next two contests will take place outside of Cambridge...
...Although the aura of Zheng's expeditions may somehow bolster China's budding soft power, it's unclear what lasting impact the visiting fleets had on medieval Africa. No durable trade ties were left in place. And while stories linger in Kenya's Lamu archipelago of a light-skinned community descended from shipwrecked Chinese sailors, the population there retains no trace of Chinese customs or language. "Not much endured beyond the legend," says Sautman. Indeed, scholars like Wade suggest the voyages themselves were something of an "aberration" in the wider context of Chinese foreign policy in that era, which...
...Chinese military analysts have explained the rapid spending increase as normal for a large nation climbing out of decades of poverty. "Although China now has a growing military demand, it has always upheld the principle of peaceful development. The double-digit increases in the past should be interpreted as compensational growth," says Zhao Zongjiu, deputy secretary-in-general at Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies, a government-backed think tank. "I predict that, given the current policy environment, the growth rate of military expenses will remain roughly on the same level as China's GDP growth in the next...