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...ironic twist, the biggest disappointment of the trip, the 4-3 loss to Boise State in the quarterfinals of the Gaucho Classic, may have made the road defeat of Pepperdine possible. The Crimson had handled Boise State easily the week before, but the weather proved to be a significant equalizer. The skies were blue, but the wind was screaming, and the Crimson was not prepared...
...weather was the biggest thing, it was very windy," Majmudar said. "We were not used to it, especially the day after we arrived. I was playing as if there were optimal conditions. As I got used to it, I got more patient. You can't win points quickly in those circumstances...
...goals on the man advantage during regulation, and the UNH power-play unit had scored on the first two Harvard penalties of the game. But the Crimson man-down unit of freshman defenseman Angela Ruggiero, Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill settled down after that, and Kuusisto made her biggest contribution during the overtime penalty kill, when she made four of her 28 saves...
...military policy with foreign affairs. For the better part of the past decade, ever since U.S. troops stumbled in Somalia, American thinking has conformed to the so-called Powell doctrine, named after former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. His doctrine had two tenets: first, the "biggest s.o.b. on the block" rule, that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second, that the U.S. should never start a fight it didn't know how to end. Powell's doctrine was designed as a kind of notional vaccine against slow-build...
...downing of a U.S. jet shows, the attack on Serbia is easily the riskiest and most complex military action of Clinton's presidency, his biggest roll of the dice. U.S. interests in Kosovo are murky, the coalition is fragile, the terrain unforgiving, and the enemy holds a lot of cards. And if you look closely, you can see the unmistakable damage from impeachment: the public is behind him by a thinner than normal majority as the operation begins. Credibility abroad begins at home...