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...Harvard women’s soccer team’s 3-2 defeat against Yale on Saturday was devastating not just because it wasted a two-goal second half Crimson comeback, but also because it dealt a serious blow to the team’s Ivy hopes...
...military defeat of the Taliban dealt a punishing blow to al-Qaeda's infrastructure, thinned its ranks and reduced the network's ability to coordinate large-scale attacks. "Afghanistan is no longer a training camp for terrorists," Rumsfeld says. "The al-Qaeda that were there are either dead or captured or on the run." Before the war, bin Laden was believed to have amassed in Afghanistan a force of 12,000 foreign fighters drawn from the Middle East, Central Asia and Pakistan who would battle the invading Americans to the death. Today, U.S. and Afghan intelligence officials believe only...
Drechsler has earned a comix rep since the early 1990s working exclusively in the genre of semi-autobiographical comix about growing up. Collected together in "Daddy's Girl," many of these deeply disturbing stories dealt with such taboo subjects as rape and familial sex abuse. Therefore anyone who knows her past work may be excused for feeling somewhat anxious with each turn of the page of her latest book. But worry not. "The Summer of Love" deals exclusively with the most typical of teenage experiences - alienation, confusion and anger...
...extremely personal they are. Other than Sydney, each takes place nearly exclusively in his native Los Angeles and treats the city as more than a location—it’s a character. More importantly, since he has written and directed all of his films, each has dealt with issues that are close to him. Both Boogie Nights and Magnolia dealt with issues of absentee mothers and abandonment, and though he rarely speaks of her, Anderson’s own estranged mother clearly influenced him. Similarly, cancer played a large role in Magnolia because at the time Anderson...
...bulk of the questions dealt with improving the College social scene...