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...center and junior third baseman Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor, brought her home with a double of her own that glanced over the head of Dartmouth’s third baseman.Schellberg made it to third when the Big Green’s catcher failed to control a wild pitch and made it home off a single by Francis to make the score 5-2.“The team thrives on momentum and once we started getting going, I think everyone knew in their heads that we could continue scoring,” Brown said...
...track, as Virginia and Southern California bested both the varsity and second varsity eight boats.“We felt like we had given up a little too much against Yale in the first 1000 meters in morning. Our plan in the afternoon was to go out and establish control of the race and keep moving from there,” Moore said.Even with Radcliffe in third place and finishing 4.5 seconds behind first-place Virginia, the Varsity Eight race made for an exciting finish nonetheless, as the Cavaliers crossed the finish line a slim 0.8 seconds ahead of Southern...
...bullets, shell fire and artillery fire for more than a year. But last week she and thousands of other Tamil civilians had nowhere else to run, caught between the Tamil Tigers and the advancing Sri Lankan government forces working to retake all the land that has been under rebel control since early 2008. Her village, Periyatampanei, was once part of a vast swath of Tiger territory, but upon the first signs of danger last March, she and her family moved deeper into Tiger-held areas. But after fleeing 90 miles (150 km) over the course of 13 months, Rageswari finally...
...some 110,000 civilians who have poured out of the war zone - a fast-shrinking sliver of land still under Tiger control - since April 20 when the army broke through a key embankment in an effort to bring an end to the 25-year conflict with the ethnic separatists...
...With a series of bombing attacks against Shi'ites leaving at least 150 people dead in recent days, many Iraqis have wondered whether the Mahdi Army will continue to stand down or renew death squad killings as they did when sectarian violence raged out of control for more than a year beginning in 2006. Zaid and others associated with Sadr say that for now the militia is effectively dormant. "The Mahdi Army is off the streets by order of the Sadr himself," says Zaid, who spoke to TIME in Najaf and pointed to a standing unilateral cease-fire declared...