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...Harvard advantage to a 2-1 Crimson deficit with two powerplay goals.In the first two periods, Dartmouth scored on two of its four man-advantage opportunities, with a third one only lasting a few seconds before a Big Green penalty evened the advantage on the ice. To combat this, Harvard changed up its penalty kill to play tighter around the net, preventing Dartmouth from crashing in at the net and scoring.In both cases, the Olympic trio of Gillian Apps, Sarah Parsons, and Katie Weatherston methodically moved the puck around and found the holes in the Crimson defense.Apps beat sophomore goalie...
...local populace ... Must be able to live in a harsh environment." The pay isn't mentioned, but L-3 recently offered interpreters more than $175,000 annually to work in Iraq. Linguists usually don't carry weapons and are often called on to participate in raids and other combat-related tasks. Casualty reports show that L-3's Titan Corp., the major contractor supplying interpreters to the U.S. military, had 216 employees killed in Iraq--nearly 100 more fatalities than the entire British army stationed there...
...decision. Army General William Wallace, who was one of the key ground commanders in the initial invasion in Iraq in 2003, said in a response to a question about the additional 20,000 troops and whether there were enough troops at the beginning of the war: "As a combat commander, you get what you get and do what you gotta...
...been calling for bump-ups for years, and some observers believe the the service chiefs' official support of the new strategy is the trade-off for getting their overall increases approved. Gates will also abandon the Pentagon policy of restricting National Guard and reserve troops to two years of combat duty for every five served, in order to be able to call up more for service in Iraq...
...tone of the party convention drew inevitable comparisons to the lead-up to Malaysia's 1969 race riots, in which hundreds of people were killed. Since then, an affirmative-action policy for Malays has redistributed the country's wealth away from Chinese and Indian pockets, in an effort to combat the economic disparities blamed for sparking the '69 upheaval. But, if anything, the country's three main ethnic groups now live even further apart than they did when blood flowed on Malaysian streets. Segregation starts early: Only 6% of Malaysian Chinese parents today send their kids to Malay-dominated government...