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Even more painful is the fact that, for the past five seasons, the squad has been unable to defeat Princeton on home ice. But tonight, the Ivy foes will face off in the Tigers’ Hobey Baker Rink, and Harvard is hungry for revenge...
...broader based. A double ambush last week in Samarra "was the biggest, most sophisticated so far," says a senior intelligence official in Washington. (See "What Really Happened?") As a Pentagon official sees it: "They know they can't beat us militarily, but they think they might be able to defeat us politically." The guerrillas are trying to drive U.S. casualties so high that the American public turns against the war, he says, adding, "They could succeed...
...prevent that, the U.S. needs to defeat the insurgents, a job that first requires figuring out who they are. U.S. intelligence experts are struggling to patch together a working profile from tidbits gleaned from captives, scraps of information of varying reliability and facts collected after attacks. They now believe the insurgents are a volatile mix of groups and free-lancers who include loyalists of the former ruling Baath Party, Fedayeen militiamen, former Republican Guard and intelligence agents, foreign jihadis, professional terrorists, paid common criminals and disaffected Iraqis. Men, in fact, like the well-educated, English-speaking fellow who appears...
After two achingly close one-goal losses to quality opponents—a 1-0 defeat last weekend at Cornell and a 3-2 loss on Wednesday at Boston College—the Harvard men’s hockey team finally came up with...
After ending last season—one of the best in Harvard women’s hockey history—with a 3-2 defeat in double overtime to Duluth, the No. 3 Crimson (11-0-0, 4-0-0 ECAC) visit the No. 4 Bulldogs (9-5-0, 5-3-0 WCHA) looking for revenge in a crucial two-game set this weekend...