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...Cornell is a lot bigger than Columbia,” Trimble said. “Every player in the front row had something to bring to us.”In the first game, Cornell (11-8, 5-2) opened with an 8-2 lead but Harvard crept back, pulling within one point of Cornell at 27-28. The Big Red, however, won the final two points en route to a 30-28 victory. The second frame was ugly for the Crimson, as Cornell showed why it is known as one of the hardest hitting teams in the league...
With The Lay of the Land (Knopf; 485 pages), Bascombe is 55 and still a Realtor in a booming market, but a brittle, somewhat sour note has crept into his thinking. It's Thanksgiving weekend of 2000. The presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with...
...While I was at West Point, the most impressive thing about cadets like Ramirez-Raphael was the way they were able to safeguard their sense of duty from whatever doubts or insecurities crept in about the mission. In the classroom, I watched Perez's classmates debate the successes and failures of the current U.S. occupation strategy. They learned about the dangers of this particular war, from watching videos of an IED explosion to discussing the fate of West Point graduate Gen. Eric Shinseki, who was forced into retirement for contradicting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's estimates about how many troops...
...she’ll probably kill it.” The Crimson opened the match with a strong effort. After dropping the first two points, Harvard took advantage of Mahon’s aggressive jump serve to go on an 8-1 run. But the Big Green slowly crept back and tied the score at 11, and neither team led by more than three points until the Crimson finished the frame on a 4-0 run to take Game One, 30-26. The second frame played out in a similar fashion, featuring 10 tie scores and four lead changes...
...With its large army and its overwhelming firepower, Israel will eventually pry the Hizballah militants off the Lebanese border. The problem is it could take weeks, or longer. In recent days, a note of caution has crept into the soundbites of various Israeli military officers. Gone are the boasts that Hizballah will be hammered into oblivion. Instead, they're urging diplomacy and calling for the presence of a robust international peace-keeping force along the border to halt Hizballah's rocketmen. Meanwhile, as casualties rise, many of Israel' s formidable chariots of war are being pressed into ambulance service...