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...Marines to mingle with the local population they are trying to win over. Winning hearts and minds in Iraq demands "close contact with the local population to provide them with security and to develop a working knowledge of the local environment that, together, produces the intelligence necessary to defeat an insurgent enemy force," a respected military think tank said in report released October 17. "The MRAP - at least in this situation - may send the wrong message to troops in the field," says the study from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments...
...seed Clayton dropped only one set through his three matches and disposed of 13th seed Artem Vlasenko of St. John’s in straight sets (6-1, 6-3) in the round of 16 yesterday to reach the today’s quarterfinals. Previously, he handily defeated opponents from Stony Brook (6-3, 6-0) and Princeton (6-2, 5-7, 6-4). Ninth-seeded Nguyen advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating No. 5 seed Mustafa Genscoy of George Washington. He struggled in the first set against Genscoy’s unconventional game, but was able to develop...
...lead down to one, Harvard’s defensive laces came undone in the second half, as Johns Hopkins blanked the Crimson en route to a 9-5 victory.Freshman Bret Voith led the squad with two goals.NAVY 7, HARVARD 5Boosted by the sheer virtue of having already defeated a team with iconic navy blue and gold colors, the Crimson had arguably its best game of the weekend in a losing result against the nationally ranked Midshipmen. No. 11 Navy flew out of the gates to a 4-0 lead early in the contest, but Harvard responded aggressively, scoring five unanswered...
...university systems. Two years later, he served in the Bush Administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services. He first ran for governor in 2003 at the age of 32, losing by a mere four percentage points to current Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco. That defeat was attributed to his relative lack of elective experience and the potential racial discomfort in the state's rural north. Blanco, whose fortunes fell rapidly after the perceived bungling of her administration during and following Katrina, decided not to run for reelection, leaving the race open for Jindal...
...Following his defeat in 2003, Jindal ran for and won the congressional seat in Louisiana's first district. Since then, the staunch conservative - who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism as a teenager - has traveled often to northern Louisiana, hitting up churches and pressing the flesh. The strategy appears to have worked, as Jindal handily won the areas he lost to Blanco four years ago and that heavily supported white supremacist David Duke's bid for the governorship in 1991. Perhaps realizing the difficulties of running to lead a state that has by and large elected white males to higher office...