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...where the pressure would have been incredible. It would have lost all the momentum the team had built after the break for exams, and, most importantly, be looking ahead to a possible first round of the Frozen Eight against any one of a number of teams that had already beaten Harvard...
...Crimson play. The annual twin juggernauts of the Ivy League have become accustomed to leaving Cambridge with a victory. You have to go back to the 1986-87 campaign to find the last time the Crimson captured both home games against the two, and not since 1990 has Harvard beaten both in the same year...
...case of Terry Washington, "a brain-damaged and retarded man, Gonzales never informed Bush that Washington's incompetent attorney never called a mental health expert to testify, never advised the jury that his client was retarded or that he had an IQ between 58 and 69 and had been beaten with whips, water hoses, extensions cords, fan belts and wire hangers as a child." I couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye...
...LARKIN, 30, British soldiers suspected of mistreating Iraqi prisoners in 2003 while setting up a food depot in southern Iraq; at a British base in Osnabr?ck, Germany. Much like the U.S. abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, the case came to light through disturbing photos of Iraqi detainees being beaten and humiliated. Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced the images as "shocking and appalling," but staunchly defended the work of the 65,000 British troops who have served in Iraq. The accused soldiers, who maintain they were following orders to round up looters and "work them hard," face nine charges, including...
...With communications in disarray, many families couldn't contact one other. "Our minds were going around and around like spin dryers," says Cummins resident Wendy Treloar, whose three farmer sons escaped the fire. "We just didn't know where everyone was." Beaten back by flames from one neighbor's house, Leith Holman and a friend raced to save another home. In 30 years on the peninsula, Holman has seen many fires, but none like this, he says: "It went through the scrub like a fireball, lighting up hundreds of yards in front of the main fire, just roaring with this...