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...Last year’s loss was one of the worst of the season because we had so many breakdowns. We felt like we should have beaten them,” said Peljto. “It was definitely something we talked about as motivation in practice this week...
...armed men, probably Taliban but possibly bandits, forced four journalists out?sparing their drivers. The four, HARRY BURTON, 33, and AZIZULLAH HAIDARI, 33, both with Reuters; MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI, 39, of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera; and JULIO FUENTES, 46, of the Spanish daily El Mundo, were beaten, stoned and then shot at close range. When the bodies were recovered two days later, each victim had multiple gun-shot wounds. They were the second group of journalists killed in Afghanistan in two weeks...
...Dutch are the most surprising absentees. Despite fielding a galaxy of stars, a top-notch coach in Louis van Gaal and a relatively easy qualifying group, the Orangemen were beaten to the draw by Portugal and Ireland. Yes, Ireland. What went wrong? "At some stage, the players lost their heads," said the famously acerbic coach after his team went down to the Irish in the crunch game. At week's end, the beleaguered Van Gaal finally quit over his failure. But in a way we'll all be punished, deprived of the languid grace of Patrick Kluivert, the quick thinking...
...Crimson, lead by Harvard Coach Tim Murphy and co-captains John Persinger and Cory Walker, has already beaten both Columbia (202-98) and Army...
...conflagration that killed most of the prisoners began on Sunday morning, triggered - according to an emerging consensus among news reports - when prisoners set upon two CIA operatives sent to interrogate them in the hope of weeding out Al Qaeda members. One of these men, Johnny "Mike" Spann, was reportedly beaten to death; the other escaped to a far corner of the prison as a massive firefight broke out between Northern Alliance guards and prisoners who carried concealed weapons, or had disarmed the guards and broken into the fortress's armory...