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...Crimson’s flat offense extended to its penalties. With 10 opportunities in the first half, Harvard was clearly frustrated with its inability to convert on penalty corners...
...obvious solution to the problem is simply to add more troops. Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat and West Point graduate who served with the 82nd Airborne, argues that the Pentagon needs to convert seven National Guard brigades--some 20,000 troops--into active-duty forces. Reed, an increasingly influential player in Congress on defense matters, thinks that would give the military the margin it now lacks in case North Korea or some other nation acts up. Another approach would be to create a new division from the ground up--not the kind that seizes ground and flanks...
...Spreading the Good News It appears that evangelical Christian missionaries have just one goal: to convert as many Muslims as possible [June 30]. But why do Christians need to go as far as Asia, Africa or the Middle East when there are so many New Age religions in America that do not conform to the teachings of Jesus? Wouldn't it make more sense for missionaries to give the "good news" to people in their own countries before preaching to Muslims, who have a lot in common with Christians? Usman S. Bello Abuja, Nigeria...
...need that force driving you to keep coming up with something new," says Enright, sitting in a former industrial park in Williamsburg that New York University plans to convert into playing fields. "I don't waste my time worrying about being co-opted...
...morning thinking, 'How can we destroy the country and pull the wool over the media's eyes?' They think they're better than politicians and that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became its leader in 1994. But in this case he may have the weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although he did suggest some small changes...