Word: crosses
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...tough adjusting at first. In college, the time commitment for football is a lot more than in high school, and the speed of play is so fast, I had to catch up,” Hanson says. ”In the first game against Holy Cross I was like a deer in headlights, my eyes were wide open. I was struck by it all, everything was just so startling. I’m a little better now, but I am still nervous.”Hanson credits senior cornerback Andrew Berry for helping him make the transition...
...Crimson defender was called for a foul in the home team’s box. Friar Ryan Maduro converted the penalty kick low right, tallying his second goal of the season.Harvard quickly responded five minutes later, when Fucito sprinted down the right sideline, shook off defenders, and delivered a cross to junior Andre Akpan. His header past Providence goalie Tim Murray was Akpan’s seventh of the season.Buoyed by the newly-evened score and no longer going against the wind, Harvard came out on the attack in the second half. “Once we were able...
...Cross-border strikes are an increasingly common tactic by U.S. forces operating along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. U.S. missile-launching drones reportedly killed at least 20 people on Sunday in Pakistan's South Waziristan province close to the Afghan border, an area suspected of harboring al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Andrew Exum, a former U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as founder of the influential Abu Muqawama counterinsurgency blog, suggests that the American action in Syria shows that the tactic may simply have been exported. "The precedent has already been established of crossing borders into...
...Syrian troops have also deployed along the northern border of neighboring Lebanon in what Damascus says is an attempt to block jihadists from slipping into Syria. These recent developments have raised speculation that Syria is threatened by a blowback from jihadist militants who no longer have easy access to cross the border into Iraq and instead are turning their attention to the secular regime in Damascus. "We assumed the Syrians were chucking people in jail, which they could be doing, but it could also be that the foreign fighters are backing up at the border with Iraq and they...
Analysts in the region suspect that the decision to mount a cross-border raid into Syria was driven more by the military needs of Army commanders in Iraq than by political calculations from Washington. According to the analysts, the Joint Special Operations Command has considerable autonomy in choosing missions in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters. "This is coming out of the Army. I don't think this is a parting shot from the Bush Administration," Tabler says...