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...more cautious element may be prevailing: Riyadh is aggressively pursuing known al-Qaeda cells and networks, but elements - particularly in the clergy - who express similar ideas in the public domain are treated with kid gloves despite public promises, reiterated by Crown Prince Abdullah on Wednesday, to do more to crack down on extremism. And a bi-partisan investigation under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations has concluded that Saudi Arabia has failed to fully live up to its commitments to crack down on terror funding and the propagation of extremist ideas...
...forces. It has kept units in Iraq beyond the one year that the Army originally pledged that they would be there and has tapped into the ranks of reservists and retirees to bulk up the overall Army force from 480,000 to 640,000. Now it wants to send crack units from California's National Training Center and Louisiana's Joint Readiness Training Center to Iraq, which some fear could hurt prewar training at home...
Gipp has no interest in joining Rockne's rookies; baseball is his game. But when Rock sees him kick a football over the grandstand, he asks Gipp to try out for the team. "All right, if you insist," Reagan almost snarls. Throughout, teacher and student crack wise with each other like two newspapermen in a screwball comedy. Reagan's casual, almost flirtatious insolence is instantly attractive, and very modern for a 1940 rah-rah epic...
...will constitute about a tenth of its membership, and possibly hold the balance of power on some issues. As E.U. leaders assemble in Brussels this week in hopes of finally agreeing on a long-delayed constitution that is anathema to these newly invigorated skeptics, this election was one more crack in the plaster of the European project. Despite its poor showing, Labour avoided a total meltdown, allowing Blair to once again scrape through with his political skin more or less intact. The newspapers have left him for dead countless times, and last week was no different. His political capital...
...against the Bulldogs, the Crimson didn’t crack down the stretch. Six threes by junior guard Kevin Rogus kept Harvard alive in the waning minutes, and a crucial block by Beal iced the game. With the loss, Yale’s hopes of competing for an Ivy title were dashed. The Crimson would down Cornell in the same manner one week later, ending the Big Red’s title hopes as well...