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Such was the case when I was checking in at the JetBlue counter on the last day of spring break, to return to the still-icy Northeast from a water polo training-trip in sunny California. Because my coach had reserved the tickets, I had no idea where I’d be sitting, so all I could do was hand over my ID and hope for the best. Lo and behold, the best was not what I received, and as I glanced down at the ticket shoved to me across the sticky counter by the JetBlue attendant...
...speed mismatch yet again on its way to earning an automatic bid to the Northern Championships. Two-meter Devon MacLaughlin played a strong game and led the team with three ejections. The resulting 6-on-5 situations should have given Harvard a greater opportunity to score. Instead, Brown scored counter-attack goals on four Crimson advantages. “You are not going to score on all your 6-on-5s, but in an extreme case, that’s an eight-goal difference,” Farrar said. HARTWICK 24, HARVARD 7 In its second match on Saturday, Harvard...
...Underground groups in Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania have long trafficked materiel, weapons and personnel among themselves. A January 2005 attack on a military post in Mauritania by fighters of the Algerian GSPC prompted the U.S. and certain European states to begin funding the $100 million annual Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, seeking to make the enormous region less hospitable to its free-roaming jihadists. Similar initiatives have been undertaken in remote parts of north Africa and the Sahel...
...best manner of preventing regional jihadist cooperation and structures from forming is by keeping groups scrambling to avoid detection at home," the French counter-terror official says. Preventing that happening in north Africa is vital for Europe, and France in particular, Jacquard notes. "If they can coordinate and become efficient through cooperation there, there's no doubt they'll export that for terror purposes here," Jacquard warns. "That's inevitable - and it's why European security services view north Africa as Europe's front line in fighting terrorism...
Although Oren’s book cannot offer any magical potions to solve America’s conflict in the Middle East, it makes the necessary attempt to counter the nation’s ignorance and unblinkingly inform the American people of their long and complex history with a region whose future is so intimately tied up with theirs. And that knowledge may be the beginnings of a solution, in and of itself...