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...leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan and religious fanatics throughout the world need to understand one thing: this war is not the same as Vietnam. Americans' compassion exists side by side with our determination to see this war through to the only possible conclusion: the total defeat of those who seek our destruction. We will not give up, we will not retreat, and we will not be destroyed. ROSALIE CANNONE MCGILL Florham Park...
With junior guard Brady Merchant scoring 17 points, including 13 in the first half, the Crimson men’s basketball team (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) used some clutch free throw shooting to win its season opener with a 68-62 defeat of MAAC entry Fairfield Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion...
Harvard had spent two weeks preparing for Navy, knowing that it would have to defeat the Midshipmen in order to have a chance at earning one of the top four spots in the tournament...
...remember the long walk back to the Quad after defeat during my junior year. The crowds spilled out into the street and a cab driver interested in the results of the game shouted at me from his car. We were ahead at the half and simply couldn’t hold on; we had just watched our team hand Handsome Dan a large Crimson rump to chomp. I could barely answer the cab driver or express the strange feeling I had to my little sister when I talked to her on the phone that night. Football doesn?...
...think that's true." Across Afghanistan, people deserted the regime as soon as it started losing, exposing its shallow hold on them. "The Taliban showed they were good at enforcing beard lengths," says a Western diplomat, "and that's about it." The first, pivotal defeat of the Taliban, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, was greased by local Pashtun fed up with taking orders from "these village idiots from the south," as a foreign aid worker put it. Those fighters cut a secret deal with Alliance commander Rashid Dostum to allow Dostum's cavalry to pour through...