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...disappointing 5-1 loss to Vermont, the Crimson was faced with a 2-0 deficit after Big Green forward Mike Maturo's goal at 11:18 of the second period. Harvard No. 14 in the U.S. College Hockey Online poll going into the weekend was suddenly in real danger of falling to 1-3 in the ECAC...
...critical to the Concorde because its design and power make it particularly vulnerable on takeoff. If the sensitive balance was off, British Air pilots would call the mechanic to the cockpit for severe reprimands. The weight distribution had to be correct; otherwise even the wind could pose a danger. In Paris on July 25, 2000, the wind had shifted to come from behind the aircraft: a basic rule for all pilots is that planes should take off into the wind. The Air France Concorde headed down the runway with an eight-knot tailwind. French investigators say these conditions were...
...other vantage point of Tob Dara, we were told later, ITN's Julian Manion proclaimed loudly to his editors that he was in serious danger broadcasting from the roof of the mosque. The biggest danger was the roof collapsing. And a radio correspondent who slipped into a local house to file reported getting half stoned on second hand fumes from marijuana being consumed by the residents. On the way back from Sinjeddarah our hopes of a relatively full night's sleep were dashed when the car broke down. We dozed fitfully until something picked...
...Britain's Tony Blair appears more apprised of the danger than the U.S. President on whose behalf he's doing plenty of diplomatic heavy lifting. The British prime minister visited Washington Wednesday to urge Bush to engage more forcefully in pursuing Israeli-Palestinian peace. Blair knows that just as America seeks to judge other countries by the extent of their participation in the campaign against al Qaeda, so will many of those countries judge America, and the extent to which they are prepared to take political risks for it, on the basis of Washington's conduct on matters important...
...raised the possibility of the Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor from Uzbekistan to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan, an advantage Pakistan cannot and has not offered because of domestic political constraints." The danger, of course, is de facto partition of Afghanistan, "a prospect no Afghan patriot contemplates with enthusiasm or equanimity. However, that may well be the bitter reality that will have to be swallowed, at least until there are signs, not visible so far, of some internal weakening of the Taliban and/or defections...