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...necessarily, at that early stage in the game, do things the easy way,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said.But when it comes to Brown, the Crimson has a way of making comebacks look like cakewalks. Like the year before, Harvard began to launch an assault on its league rivals.The Crimson opened the second quarter with a pair of touchdown runs by starting tailback Clifton Dawson. Harvard finally pulled even at 22 on a nine-yard scoring catch by receiver Corey Mazza in the third quarter.In the fourth quarter, the fireworks started. Harvard took its first lead...
...Some are already paying a heavy price. In a statement issued from jail and posted in numerous blogs, blogger activist Mohammad Al Sharqawi said police brutally beat and sexually assaulted him when he was arrested leaving a protest last week. "The pain was terrible," Al Sharqawi wrote in the statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi...
Abile Mosoco likes to drink coffee while he's fighting. Sip, snipe, sip, snipe. Sometimes the rebel commander reaches for the .22 rifle with telescopic sight that lies next to him as he sits behind a low masonry wall. Sometimes he unslings the Steyr assault rifle from his shoulder and just blasts away. His targets -soldiers of the East Timorese Army, the FDTL-scurry about 200 m below. Every so often a bullet whines overhead, but from his hillside position on the edge of a small plateau near the capital Dili's television tower, Mosoco is a difficult target...
...Sunni-led insurgency. The city remains a stronghold of insurgents loyal to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, who U.S. intelligence believes is hiding in an area north of the city. In recent weeks, the soldiers and Marines in Ramadi have come under regular assault, forcing commanders last week to order reinforcements to the besieged city. In the past year, the Army's 2/28th Brigade Combat Team, the unit the Marines are attached to, has lost 79 men in Ramadi--yet the brigade's commander, Colonel John Gronski, says, "The level of violence remains about...
...Faculty members spoke in favor of an overhaul of the College’s sexual assault policies. The only professor to speak against them was political scientist Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who said that casual “hookups” might define sexual behavior on campus...