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...welcomed the Harvard baseball team with sunny weather, but the Crimson (1-10) couldn’t handle the heat.In the first four games of its spring break trip out West, Harvard (1-14) had trouble keeping up with its high-ranked competition. The Crimson suffered a 9-4 defeat to UC Riverside (6-13, 0-1 Big West) and then fell in three straight blowouts to No. 14 San Diego (19-9, 1-1 WCC). Over the four games, Harvard was outscored 46-8 and hit only .181.“It’s tough...
...never really got anything done that we wanted to.”The story of the doubleheader was an inability to bring runners home in big situations. Harvard dropped the first game 3-2 after a complete game from senior Shawn Haviland and then suffered a 6-5 defeat in the nightcap. In the second game, the squad relinquished a late-inning lead and could not manufacture enough runs.“3-2 and 6-5 are stinging losses to open the Ivy League season,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I feel...
...stepped Sarkozy, who in London this week explained his decision by warning, "We can not accept a return of the Taliban and al-Qaeda to Kabul. Defeat is not an option to us, even if victory is difficult." Few in French politics or public opinion disagree with that view. "Afghanistan is still linked in the French mind to the response to 9/11 ... (and) is still widely seen here as the right war" says François Heisbourg, a military expert and special adviser to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Paris...
...last serious attempt to defeat Sadr's fighters was in the summer of 2004, when Iyad Allawi, at the time the interim Prime Minister, authorized U.S. forces to attack the Mahdi Army in Baghdad and the holy city of Najaf. Then a poorly armed and ill-trained band, Sadr's men were easily routed, but Allawi didn't have the stomach to deliver the coup de grace: he allowed Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the senior Shi'ite cleric, to broker a peace that allowed Sadr to keep his fighters and, more importantly, his freedom...
...voters to accept nuance in an arena that almost always rewards simplicity over complexity. Politicians tend to offer deliberately banal choices: Either we move forward or we fall backward, either we let the economy falter or we help it grow, either we succumb to our enemies or we defeat them - the choice is up to you, America! Obama's formulation was different. Explicitly asking Americans to grapple with racial divisions and then transcend them - that's a bolder, riskier request...