Word: attackers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wind at its back, the bad news out of the Afghanistan theater just keeps getting worse for the U.S. NATO commanders have long expressed frustration at the failure of the Pakistani military to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters maintaining sanctuaries in Pakistan from which they can launch attacks inside Afghanistan. But Pakistan's announcement on Monday of a peace agreement to accommodate the domestic Taliban insurgency in the Swat Valley suggests that an all-out war against militants on their soil is not what Pakistan's generals have in mind. And the supply lines that funnel food, fuel...
...HARVARD 2 On Saturday, the Crimson faced No. 8 Michigan. Harvard missed some crucial opportunities and made some costly mistakes, which resulted in a 13-2 defeat. Kennifer and junior Kristina Bergquist recorded the two goals. Goalie and co-captain Nicola Perlman made six stops against the Wolverine attack. Despite the score, Farrar said he was relatively pleased with his team’s performance. “We didn’t shoot very effectively, [but] as we go forward, we will do a better job of capitalizing on those scoring chances,” Farrar said. MacLaughlin looked...
...hours on a bus and hotel...By the time we got to East Stroudsburg, our heads weren’t in the right place.”Despite a solid defensive showing and decent passing, Harvard struggled to score points when it needed to. The Crimson averaged a team attack percentage of only .161, .062, and .161 in the first, second, and third games, respectively.“We’re just having a hard time scoring points on offense,” Baise said. “We’d like to be, as a team, around...
...weapons,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “Overall we weren’t very good defensively. Perimeter, post, they broke us down.”Facing the top offensive team in the Ancient Eight, the Crimson had no answers for a balanced attack that seemed able to score at will. Accumulating an impressive 31 assists, the Big Red made over half of its three-point attempts while dominating the paint, tallying 42 points inside to Harvard’s 30. Seven-foot senior Jeff Foote made a strong impact on both ends of the floor...
...flabbergasted to the point that I want to laugh." Koizumi also expressed doubts about Aso's stimulus package and his ability to lead the LDP in upcoming parliamentary elections. Gerald Curtis, professor of political science at Columbia University, says there is an obvious rift in the LDP. Koizumi's attack on Aso was a way of "throwing down the gauntlet," he says...