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...It’s all fine and good for the FCC to have dog and pony shows to respond to Silicon Valley lobbyists. But the real business of the FCC—ensuring a widespread diversity of voices on the nation’s airways—is under attack. The FCC would better serve the public by staying home and attending to real business of the people...
...hard-line Islamist movement that ruled Somalia for 6 months in 2006, and which included a significant number of foreign jihadis in its ranks. When the Ethiopians attacked to drive the Islamists out of the capital, they were accompanied by a small number of U.S. Special Forces personnel who hoped to flush out three al-Qaeda commanders responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The bombers had been suspected of sheltering with the ICU. When the militants regrouped in the south, the U.S. saw its chance and launched two separate air strikes, followed by another...
...remaining seconds of the 5-on-4 power play. Corralling the rebound of a shot by freshman Michael Biega in front of the goal, he skated around goaltender Mark Dekanich and deposited it into the right side of the net to knot the score at three.Despite an aggressive Crimson attack in the third period in an attempt to notch the game-winner, solid Raider defense thwarted each additional Harvard chance.With two minutes to play, junior center Jimmy Fraser fired a shot on goal, which was saved by Dekanich. Harvard recovered the rebound and a scuffle for the puck ensued...
There are other factors to consider. "It's the first fatality that we have reported involving a dive where the host is specifically bringing in the animal by chumming [feeding the sharks with chopped up fish]," says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida. "Putting people in the water with these large animals is a risk. It's not a matter of whether an attack like this was going to happen, it was when...
...Israeli attack on Gaza came after an Israeli student was killed in a rocket blast, and the port city of Ashkelon, with 120,000 residents, came under attack, showing Israelis for the first time that the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad had acquired a large arsenal of accurate, longer-range rockets. One Hamas commander told TIME by telephone: "It's true that we're losing lives but we'll prove to the Arab world that we have the power to stand up to Israel." The Israeli combat brigade withdrew from northern Gaza early Monday morning, even as another rocket...