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...surge. Nothing was more demoralizing last year to supporters of the war than the sense that Bush was refusing to alter course out of misguided loyalty to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General George Casey. The ouster of Rumsfeld and Casey and the announcement of a new strategy backed up by additional troops and a new commander, General David Petraeus, gave hope to those who still think success is possible in Iraq--which, polls show, is still a healthy majority of Republicans...
...Franks' successor, John Abizaid, is by all accounts a fine Army officer, but one who spent years stressing the need for a "light footprint" inside Iraq that dragged out the death and dying on both sides. He'll retire soon to praise and pension. And General George Casey, Abizaid's underling and overall commander inside Iraq for the past 30 months, has just won promotion to Army chief of staff...
...your glove compartment. When you’re looking for a way to start a story or drafting questions for your next profile, an owner’s manual is never a bad thing to have around, even if it is a little redundant. —Reviewer Casey N. Cep can be reached at cep@fas.harvard.edu...
Easily the most exciting matchup of the weekend. Two weeks ago in Ithaca, the Big Red eked out a 60-59 squeker when Bulldog forward Casey Hughes missed two free throws with two seconds left. Hughes is questionable against Cornell this time around with an injury which might not seem like such a bad thing to the Bulldog faithful after his not-so-clutch performance the last time out. Unfortunately for Yale, Hughes has also been the team’s best frontcourt player and without him, the Bulldogs will be undermanned against big Cornell center Andrew Naeve...
...Goffredo struggled in Harvard’s last matchup with Yale, an 88-78 loss at Lavietes Pavilion in which the shooting guard miss seven of 10 shots. In that game, Goffredo was hounded by defensive stopper Casey Hughes, an athletic 6’5, 200-pound forward who used his superior length and quickness to contest every Goffredo jumper. But Hughes was in shirt-and-tie Saturday night, sidelined by a fractured foot, and Goffredo was getting open shots. They just weren’t falling...