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Unfortunately, the Crimson blew several chances in the red zone, thanks to crippling penalties and momentum-blowing turnovers...
...Barrel of a Gun” and “Fa Fa.” At one point, ping-pong balls with the words “Harvard [heart]s Guster” written in black marker were thrown onto the stage. Some also blew soap bubbles in the direction of the band...
...with just 13 seconds left, MIT was awarded a penalty shot. The Engineers’ Alexei Zykov took the ball in front of Harvard sophomore goalie Robbie Burmeister. The whistle blew, Zykov threw the ball into the goal and the game was over. MIT won, again...
...flow of jihadis into Iraq. But the deeper problem is inside Iraq itself. Foreign fighters wouldn't last hours in Iraq if the local population was a) sufficiently sympathetic to the U.S. occupation, and b) sufficiently confident in the ability of the U.S. to protect them if they blew the whistle. The same goes for local fighters. Instead, it seems, scores of fighters both local and foreign are able to live and move comfortably among ordinary Iraqis, at least in the Sunni population. And that's an indicator of the depth of the problem...
...even greater concern may be what the presence of foreign fighters says about the political environment in Iraq: After all, foreign jihadists wouldn't last hours if the local population was hostile to them and trusted the Americans to provide security if they blew the whistle. Plainly, there is an element of the Iraqi population willing to provide shelter and succor to foreigners that have come to fight...