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...stretches where the other team had been on the run and we haven’t been able to fight back, bounce back, or we’ve been ahead and haven’t been able to finish,” Amaker continued. In its most recent defeat, Harvard squandered an 18-point second half lead in a home loss against UC Irvine, but there would be no let down in this game. The Big Green scored the first points of the second half, but Lin answered with a floater off a strong drive and sophomore forward Pat Magnarelli...
...Specifically, those inside the campaign and outside advisers fault Penn for failing to see the Iowa defeat coming. They say he was assuring Clinton and her allies right up until the caucuses that they would win it. Says one: "He did not predict in any way, shape or form the tidal wave we saw." In particular, he had assured them that Clinton's support among women would carry her through. Yet she managed to win only 30% of the women's vote, while 35% of them went for Obama...
...Ironically, American support for military dictators has been in the pursuit of U.S. interests not in Pakistan but in neighboring countries - to balance Soviet influence in India or to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the U.S. has rarely kept its eye on the ball. In the 1980s, Washington aided the regime of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, using Pakistan as a fulcrum to help pry the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. The policy succeeded - but when victory was assured, the U.S. lost interest, while thousands of young Muslim extremists who had been armed to combat...
...Junior Katie Rollins paced Harvard over the weekend, scoring a career-high 22 points in an 83-71 loss to Kennesaw State on Saturday. Rollins followed that performance with 20 points in Harvard’s heartbreaking 60-57 defeat to Chicago State on Sunday...
Tribal violence erupted across Kenya Monday, claiming the lives of at least 124 people, after widespread accusations that President Mwai Kibaki rigged an election to defeat opposition candidate Raili Odinga...