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Despite losing Matt Minoff and Paul Vitelli to graduation, Yale might still have the best starting five in the Ivy League this season. Edwin Draughan, Alex Gamboa and Casey Hughes comprise one of the top backcourts in the league. Sam Kaplan and Dominick Martin provide the Bulldogs with a formidable frontcourt. But the weakness clearly lies in the bench, and that should keep Yale from challenging for the league title. The Bulldogs faded late last season, dropping out of contention midway through the Ivy slate and stumbling to a 7-7 finish. Don’t expect a repeat performance...
...guerrillas typically do when confronting overwhelmingly superior firepower by simply dispersing to attack elsewhere. A number stayed behind, some no doubt on promises of "martyrdom" and lionization in a kind of insurgent "Alamo" mythology. These men appear to have been mostly Iraqis - the U.S. commander in Iraq, General George Casey, said Monday that of the more than 1,000 men captured in the fight for the city, only 15 are confirmed foreign fighters...
...Casey also noted that while Harvard’s expenditures may have increased this year, the same proportion is still devoted to in-house efforts rather than hiring outside groups...
...goes back 15 or 20 years when [Harvard] began interacting with Congress about student financial aid, research programs and other issues of academic concern,” said Casey. “But our efforts still revolve around interaction with Congress and the executive branch on the core issues of the University...
...Casey said this is not the case at Harvard, since the University does not seek grants from the federal government, but rather from institutions such as the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation...