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Still, Moore’s skills go a long way into determining how opponents and teammates view him. He is, after all, Harvard’s best clutch player and the focus of opponent’s defensive attentions...
...American public form a giant neighborhood-watch service after last year's terrorist attacks, people in the Portland, Ore., area must have been paying attention. The arrest last week of four U.S. citizens accused of conspiring to join al-Qaeda was the culmination of yearlong cooperation among a clutch of curious neighbors, more than 100 fbi agents and an alert deputy sheriff. Officials have accused Jeffrey Leon Battle, 32; Patrice Lumumba Ford, 31; and Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, 22, of trying to travel to Afghanistan late last year to support al-Qaeda. (They flew into Hong Kong but apparently lacked...
...fashion magazine, I often feel that they are disappointed with my response. “It was a job,” I say, “albeit a fun one.” I think this is because most of us, myself included, associate such workplaces with a clutch of negative stereotypes. There’s a sense that these people are not actually “working,” or if they are, that they are performing tasks that anyone could do. But it’s not at easy as it looks. No matter how frivolous...
...Delhi. The anger of those who had been cheated turned into sullen bitterness before it erupted into militancy, fueled by Pakistan and encouraged by a changing world order. As Kashmiris watched the Soviet Union defeated by a jihad in Afghanistan, and saw Central Asia emerge from the clutch of a tired bear, they began to believe that their independence was possible. But the insurgents and Pakistan both underestimated India's will to protect its national integrity. India used its strength, sometimes arbitrarily and excessively, but this was a battle of the heart it could not lose...
...Crimson erased 2-0 and 3-0 deficits during its last two games on clutch performances from a collection of different players, most notably Ara and senior midfielder Marc Buan, in securing come-from-behind victories. Both scored two goals against Hartford to clinch the victory...