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...since the 2000-01 season.“It was incredibly disappointing,” senior Kevin Du said of the season’s outcome. “We felt that with the core players that we had...we would be at the top of the ECAC and contend for our league title and hopefully the national title, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t meant to be.”The Crimson struggled from the outset, dropping its first three games for the first time since the 1951-52 campaign.“We started...
...dream is about to come true - and then some. He is set to be named this morning as the new president of the World Bank, an institution that wrestles with poverty and corruption overseas in its mission to help the underdeveloped world. As president, Zoellick will also have to contend with unending international politics about how to spend its multibillion-dollar budget...
Syria, Lebanese officials contend, is attempting to derail U.N. efforts to set up a tribunal that could try Syrian officials implicated in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. If that's true, Lebanon, a year after the Israel-Hizballah war, could experience another scorching summer...
...trial motions, Padilla's attorneys have consistently tried to steer attention to what happened to Padilla during his three years and eight months in military detention - and to some degree Cooke has allowed them to do that. They contend that Padilla was tortured: fed LSD and other drugs, exposed to extreme temperatures, shackled in "stress positions" and deprived of sleep. The torture, they argue, made Padilla mentally unfit to stand trial and so undermined his constitutional right to a fair process that the whole case should be thrown...
...Soldiers deploying abroad have always had to contend with missing a child's birth, a sibling's wedding or a parent's death. They face fatigue and frustration no matter the duration of stay. Their spouses suffer at home, and marriages fall apart under the strain of separation. And the stress of deployment in a hostile combat zone has a corrosive effect on discipline. Three more months may not seem that long to a civilian, but to a soldier already on the ground, it's another 90 days in which a lot could go wrong. "It's like running...