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...With the Crimson on the brink of elimination, the team turned to hitters Weissbourd and Jones for points. The two started off with easy kills, giving Harvard a 5-2 lead. However, the injury on Weissbourd began to take its toll in this crucial fourth...
David Kilcullen, a counter-terrorism expert for both the Bush and the Obama administrations, warned that Pakistan is on the brink of collapse. "Afghanistan doesn't worry me," Kilcullen said in an April 12 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. "Pakistan does. We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf anything we have seen so far in whatever we're calling the war on terror...
...Detroit Free Press, one of the old city dailies, on the brink of extinction and in the shadow of the failing car industry, won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Last year, the paper published text messages between the city's mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, and his female chief of staff. The mayor went to jail...
...Back in Da'an, one middle-aged voter says he once left this village because local corruption and mismanagement brought his company to the brink of bankruptcy, forcing him to look for work elsewhere. Now, he says, he's come back to Da'an in the hope his vote will help put the village on a better path forward. "Of course I'd come back home just to vote," he says, declining to give his name. "This is a big deal for my village. The leadership was so disappointing that it drove me away. I can't wait...
...rare happening,” Rueb said. “There was a definite energy switch. There’s a lot of synergy that goes on between the courts.” With Brown’s victory mere points away, the Crimson fought back from the brink to complete a remarkable turnaround.“I just told myself that you can’t really worry about losing at this stage,” Omodele-Lucien said. “It’s obviously not helping.”Though Rueb was vocal in his approval...