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...Harvard T stop followed this downward trend. The number of incidents of assault, larceny, theft and robbery reported at the Harvard station declined from 14 in 2003 to eight this year...
...mounted early resistance, managing to respond to the Harvard assault with two goals of its own. Both scores came on loose pucks in front of the net—rebounds that the Crimson defense failed to clear from the crease...
...A.M.S. returned to its previous intransigence, threatening to "declare holy war over Iraq and declare a mobilization against the occupation troops as well as all those collaborating with them" if U.S. forces didn't stop their bombing operations in Fallujah. And amid growing reports of an imminent ground assault on Fallujah by U.S.-led forces, the A.M.S. last week warned that such an operation would lead it to "call on Iraqis to boycott the polls and to consider the results null and void...
...minimize the negative publicity of such casualties by seizing control of the city's main hospital overnight on Monday - previously a source of many televised claims that coalition forces had inflicted civilian casualties - many Iraqi and international actors invested in the transition process remain concerned that a frontal assault on Fallujah could have the opposite political effect to the one desired...
...leading Sunni Muslim clerical body, the Association of Muslim Scholars, which is viewed as allied with the insurgency, has condemned the assault and warned of an escalation of the insurgency elsewhere. And, of course, it has reiterated its call for a boycott of the January election. Others, like UN Secretary General Kofi Annan have warned that if the assault of Fallujah creates a backlash that keeps Sunnis away from the polls, then the operation will have been self-defeating. Even acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, the most senior Sunni figure in Allawi's government, has publicly warned that a bloody...