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...with a long-time nemesis will demand a distinct effort from all fronts. Harvard defenseman will look to control dangerous attackers Colin Greening and Riley Nash, who was voted preseason All-ECAC. Cornell’s Ben Scrivens, among the nation’s best goaltenders, is also bound to be a strong force between the pipes...
...paranoid fits seized briefly by flashes of the mundane and pathetic around her. “Those sons of bitches,” thinks Rivera, “those cowards, they should all be killed. Doesn’t her hair look great?” Her thoughts bound from the invisible killers to the way her friend has been made up by the funeral home. But as Rivera’s personal investigation into Olga María’s murder progresses, her thoughts gain a more narrow urgency. Rivera’s postulations span entire pages...
...Bernard Kerik. A high school dropout who was abandoned by his mother as a toddler, Kerik became commissioner of the New York Police Department and nominee to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security before his checkered past caught up with him. On Thursday, Nov. 5, the gruff, muscle-bound 54-year-old pleaded guilty to tax fraud, making false statements and other felonies in a federal courthouse in suburban New York. The man who once oversaw the nation's largest municipal jail system - and whose name once adorned a New York correctional center - now faces more than two years...
...meantime, the Lebanese population has been left alone to fend off national threats such as the H1N1 epidemic, inflation, and national debt. Fraud, corruption, and poverty are also plaguing the country, and the situation is bound to get worse if political activity is not restored. Politicians need to sacrifice their personal gains for the good of the country. So far, the recipe for a government has proved to be far more difficult than that of hummus...
Meanwhile, border tensions around the monastery where the Dalai Lama found asylum 60 years ago continue to simmer. As neighbors and growing world powers, India and China are bound to have their differences, but, say analysts, it is in both countries' interests to move away from the icy, uncompromising positions where they are now entrenched. The possibilities for trade between India's northeast and China's southwest have barely been explored. "Indians and Chinese need to be more confident in their history," says Anand. "This is history, as you see in Tawang, which was more complicated, fluid and relaxed...