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...Even though we had two tough first games, we were able to rally mentally,” junior co-captain Brett Voith said. “We were really able to turn around our performance and get us back on track of where we want to be heading into our league schedule...
...20-6.Down by two touchdowns, Collier Winters and the Harvard offense looked to close the gap. But with the Holy Cross’s best cornerback Michael Wright matched up against senior Matt Luft, Winters’ targets were severely limited.“I thought we spread it around reasonably, but I think they did a good job against Luft,” Murphy said. “That was part of their game plan. They put their best guy on him. Sometimes they double covered him under the boundary. But the bottom line is predicated on what people give...
...real arena for future confrontation, say most Indian strategists, lies not in standoffs on remote, rugged peaks but in the waters all around the Indian subcontinent. The Indian Ocean is the thoroughfare for nearly half of all global seaborne trade, and the coastal states are home to over 60% of the world's oil and a third of its gas reserves. Traditionally, India has imagined the ocean as part of its backyard without investing serious resources in its navy - much more goes to an army and air force that are perched by the land boundaries with the old enemy...
...safeguard its vast appetite for oil and other natural resources, particularly those drawn from Africa, China has embarked upon a "string of pearls" strategy, building ports and listening posts around the Indian Ocean rim. Beijing's projects span from the Malacca Straits to the Cape of Good Hope and many places in between, including countries that were once in India's sphere of influence. A massive deep-sea port being built by Chinese funds and labor at Hambantota, at the southern tip of Sri Lanka, has in particular riled Indian analysts. With a $1 billion facility also under construction...
...campus lab as part of an increasing national trend in jobsite brutality. "This is not about urban crime, university crime, domestic crime," said New Haven police chief James Lewis on Sept. 17, after authorities arrested Le's co-worker, "but an issue of workplace violence, a growing concern around the country." (Read: "Do Early-Release Programs Raise the Crime Rate...